--- title: A plant is built like a house with plumbing: roots underground drink… — Roots, stems and leaves · tree and pragmatics description: A plant is built like a house with plumbing: roots underground drink water and hold on tight, the stem is a bundle of pipes and a pillar, and the leaves are solar panels that make food. Who acts: roots, stem, leaves, solar panels. A sentence of the lesson «Roots, stems and leaves» of the biology cou --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/57-roots-stems-and-leaves/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Roots, stems and leaves](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/57-roots-stems-and-leaves/) / 0 # Roots, stems and leaves, sentence 0 A plant is built like a house with plumbing: roots underground drink water and hold on tight, the stem is a bundle of pipes and a pillar, and the leaves are solar panels that make food. **Who acts:** roots, stem, leaves, solar panels · **What happens:** build, drink, hold on, be, make · **To what, where:** plant, water, bundle, solar panels, food This is a sentence of the lesson «Roots, stems and leaves» 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 (roots, stem, leaves, solar panels), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:057-roots-stems-and-leaves.lesson:0 # text = A plant is built like a house with plumbing: roots underground drink water and hold on tight, the stem is a bundle of pipes and a pillar, and the leaves are solar panels that make food. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 057-roots-stems-and-leaves.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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 like like ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 plumbing plumbing NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 11 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 12 underground underground ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 13 drink drink VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 14 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 hold hold VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 17 on on ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 18 tight tight ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 stem stem NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 bundle bundle NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 pipes pipe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 pillar pillar NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 34 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 35 solar solar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 panels panel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 37 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 38 nsubj _ _ 38 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 acl:relcl _ _ 39 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **build** | present · passive | | a plant | | | | like a house with plumbing | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 2 | **drink** | present | roots | water | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | | 3 | **hold on** | present | roots *not said here* | | | | | tight *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | present | the stem | a bundle | | | | of pipes and a pillar | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | present | the leaves | solar panels | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **make** | present | solar panels | food | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset food=Product | 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:057-roots-stems-and-leaves.lesson:0`. **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): R6-punct-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…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/56-how-plants-grow/17/) - next →: [Roots, stems and leaves, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/57-roots-stems-and-leaves/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/57-roots-stems-and-leaves/)