--- title: A seed takes in water, swells and splits; first a root grows down, t… — How plants grow: seeds, light, water and air · tree and pragmatics description: A seed takes in water, swells and splits; first a root grows down, then a shoot grows up, and this is called germination. Who acts: seed, root, shoot. 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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 (seed, root, shoot), 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:5 # text = A seed takes in water, swells and splits; first a root grows down, then a shoot grows up, and this is called germination. # 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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 seed seed NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 swells swell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 splits split VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 14 advmod _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 root root NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 15 down down ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 20 advmod _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 shoot shoot NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 21 up up ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 27 germination germination NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 xcomp _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | present | a seed | | | water | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in water=Location | | 2 | **swell** | present | a seed *not said here* | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **split** | present | a seed *not said here* | | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **grow down** | present | a root | | | | | first *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **grow up** | present | a shoot | | | | then | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **call** | present · passive | | this | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:056-how-plants-grow.lesson:5`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1. **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/). - ← previous: [How plants grow: seeds, light, water a…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/56-how-plants-grow/4/) - next →: [How plants grow: seeds, light, water a…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/56-how-plants-grow/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/56-how-plants-grow/)