--- title: Plants also move, slowly: a cress plant on the windowsill leans towa… — How plants grow: seeds, light, water and air · tree and pragmatics description: Plants also move, slowly: a cress plant on the windowsill leans towards the light, and a sprouting potato in a dark cupboard sends out long pale shoots searching for it. Who acts: Plants, cress plant, sprouting potato, long pale shoots. 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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 (Plants, cress plant, sprouting potato, long pale shoots), 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:3 # text = Plants also move, slowly: a cress plant on the windowsill leans towards the light, and a sprouting potato in a dark cupboard sends out long pale shoots searching for it. # 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 3 nsubj _ _ 2 also also ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 move move VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 cress cress NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 windowsill windowsill NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 leans lean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 14 towards towards ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 sprouting sprouting NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 potato potato NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 cupboard cupboard NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 26 sends send VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 27 out out ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 28 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 29 pale pale ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 shoots shoot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 31 searching search VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 acl _ _ 32 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **move** | present | Plants | | | | | slowly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **lean** | present | a cress plant on the windowsill | | | | | towards the light | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **send out** | present | a sprouting potato in a dark cupboard | long pale shoots | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoot=Theme | | 4 | **search** | gerund | long pale shoots *not said here* | | | | | for plant | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for it=Theme | 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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