--- title: Try the celery trick: stand a celery stick in blue food colouring ov… — Roots, stems and leaves · tree and pragmatics description: Try the celery trick: stand a celery stick in blue food colouring overnight, and the leaves turn blue at the edges, because water is pulled up thin tubes in the stem as it evaporates from the leaves, like a drink up a straw. Who acts: you, celery stick, leaves, water. 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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 (you, celery stick, leaves, water), 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:1 # text = Try the celery trick: stand a celery stick in blue food colouring overnight, and the leaves turn blue at the edges, because water is pulled up thin tubes in the stem as it evaporates from the leaves, like a drink up a straw. # 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): R5-strong ×3 1 Try try VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 celery celery NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 trick trick NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 6 stand stand VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 celery celery NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 stick stick NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 colouring colour VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 acl _ _ 14 overnight overnight ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:advmod 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 20 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ _ 21 at at ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 edges edge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:obl 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 because because SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 26 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 pulled pull VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 advcl _ _ 29 up up PART RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 30 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 tubes tube NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 stem stem NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 35 as as SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 evaporates evaporate VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advcl 38 from from ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obl _ _ 41 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 like like ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 drink drink NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 45 up up ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 straw straw NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nmod _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **try** | imperative | you *not said here* | the celery trick | | | | like a drink up a straw | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Eventuality | | 2 | **stand** | infinitive | | a celery stick | | blue food | | overnight *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stick=Theme in food=Destination | | 3 | **colour** | gerund | a celery stick *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **turn** | present | the leaves | | | the edges | | blue *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at edge=Trajectory | | 5 | **pull up** | present · passive | | water | | | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: subject=Theme tube=Result | | 6 | **evaporate** | present | water | | | the leaves | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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