--- title: Here is the big surprise: a tall oak that grew from a tiny acorn is… — How plants grow: seeds, light, water and air · tree and pragmatics description: Here is the big surprise: a tall oak that grew from a tiny acorn is made mostly from the air, because the carbon in carbon dioxide becomes wood, while the soil gives only water and small amounts of minerals. Who acts: tall oak, carbon, soil. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tall oak, carbon, soil), 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:2 # text = Here is the big surprise: a tall oak that grew from a tiny acorn is made mostly from the air, because the carbon in carbon dioxide becomes wood, while the soil gives only water and small amounts of minerals. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 surprise surprise NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 oak oak NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 10 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 12 from from ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 acorn acorn NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ _ 18 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 19 from from ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 23 because because SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 carbon carbon NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 carbon carbon NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 dioxide dioxide NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 30 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:obj 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 while while SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:conj 36 only only ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 39 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 amounts amount NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 conj _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 minerals mineral NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nmod _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | | the big surprise | | here | | | tree rules | | 2 | **grow** | past | a tall oak | | | | | from a tiny acorn | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from acorn=Patient | | 3 | **make** | present · passive | | a tall oak | | the air | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from air=Material | | 4 | **become** | present | the carbon in carbon dioxide | wood | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **give** | present | the soil | water and small amounts of minerals | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | | 6 | **amount** | | | minerals | | | | | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient | 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. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. 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