--- title: A seed carries its own food store, so it can grow before it has leav… — How plants grow: seeds, light, water and air · tree and pragmatics description: A seed carries its own food store, so it can grow before it has leaves; roots grow down and shoots up whichever way the seed lies, because they sense gravity. Who acts: seed, roots, leaves. 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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, roots, leaves), 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:6 # text = A seed carries its own food store, so it can grow before it has leaves; roots grow down and shoots up whichever way the seed lies, because they sense gravity. # 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): R5-strong ×1, 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 carries carry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 5 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 store store NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 so so ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 13 before before SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 16 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 18 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 20 down down ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 shoots shoot VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj 23 up up ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ _ 24 whichever whichever DET WDT PronType=Rel 25 det _ _ 25 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 seed seed NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 lies lie VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 because because SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 31 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 sense sense VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 33 gravity gravity NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 34 . . 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 | **carry** | present | a seed | seed's own food store | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent store=Theme | | 2 | **grow** | can | seed | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **have** | present | seed | leaves | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient | | 4 | **grow down** | present | roots | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **shoot up** | present | roots *not said here* | whichever way | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient | | 6 | **lie** | present | the seed | whichever way *not said here* | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | | 7 | **sense** | present | leaves *= leaf* | gravity | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer gravity=Stimulus | 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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