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title: Almost all the oxygen we breathe was made by plants and tiny algae i… — How plants grow: seeds, light, water and air · tree and pragmatics
description: Almost all the oxygen we breathe was made by plants and tiny algae in the sea. Who acts: we, plants. A sentence of the lesson «How plants grow: seeds, light, water and air» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# How plants grow: seeds, light, water and air, sentence 9

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Almost all the oxygen we breathe was made by plants and tiny algae in the sea.

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**Who acts:** we, plants · **What happens:** breathe, make · **To what, where:** oxygen

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This is a sentence of the lesson «How plants grow: seeds, light, water and air» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, 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:9
# text = Almost all the oxygen we breathe was made by plants and tiny algae in the sea.
# 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	Almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	breathe	breathe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl:agent	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	algae	alga	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **breathe** | present | we | all oxygen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oxygen=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | past · passive | plants in the sea and tiny algae | all oxygen |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product |

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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.

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**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:9`.

**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): no change. **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/).

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