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title: Plants grow mainly at the tips of their shoots and roots, and some b… — How plants grow: seeds, light, water and air · tree and pragmatics
description: Plants grow mainly at the tips of their shoots and roots, and some bamboos can grow nearly a metre in a day. Who acts: Plants, bamboos. A sentence of the lesson «How plants grow: seeds, light, water and air» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# How plants grow: seeds, light, water and air, sentence 14

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Plants grow mainly at the tips of their shoots and roots, and some bamboos can grow nearly a metre in a day.

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**Who acts:** Plants, bamboos · **What happens:** grow · **To what, where:** tips, metre

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This is a sentence of the lesson «How plants grow: seeds, light, water and air» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Plants, bamboos), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:056-how-plants-grow.lesson:14
# text = Plants grow mainly at the tips of their shoots and roots, and some bamboos can grow nearly a metre in a day.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 056-how-plants-grow.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change
1	Plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	mainly	mainly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	tips	tip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	shoots	shoot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	bamboos	bamboo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
18	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	metre	metre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present | Plants |  |  | the tips of tips's shoots and roots |  | mainly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at tip=Location |
| 2 | **grow** | can | some bamboos | a metre |  |  | day |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location metre=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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