--- title: Cartoons show plants eating soil with roots like spoons, and carnivo… — How plants grow: seeds, light, water and air · tree and pragmatics description: Cartoons show plants eating soil with roots like spoons, and carnivorous plants swallowing people; real plants make their own food from light, air and water, and no plant can eat a person. Who acts: Cartoons, plants, carnivorous plants, real plants. 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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 (Cartoons, plants, carnivorous plants, real plants), 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:4 # text = Cartoons show plants eating soil with roots like spoons, and carnivorous plants swallowing people; real plants make their own food from light, air and water, and no plant can eat a person. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Cartoons cartoon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 eating eat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 acl _ _ 5 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 8 like like ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 spoons spoon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 carnivorous carnivorous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 swallowing swallow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 conj _ _ 15 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 20 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 23 from from ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 31 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 32 det _ _ 32 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 33 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | present | Cartoons | plants | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent plant=Recipient | | 2 | **eat** | gerund | plants *not said here* | soil | | | | with roots like spoons | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Patient | | 3 | **swallow** | gerund | carnivorous plants | people | | | | | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | | 4 | **make** | present | real plants | Cartoons's own food | | light and air and water | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset food=Product from light=Material | | 5 | **eat** | can | no plant | a person | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=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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