--- title: Pea plants climb with tendrils that wrap round whatever they touch,… — Roots, stems and leaves · tree and pragmatics description: Pea plants climb with tendrils that wrap round whatever they touch, reaching the light without building a thick stem; ivy climbs with tiny gripping roots. Who acts: Pea plants, tendrils, spines, ivy. A sentence of the lesson «Roots, stems and leaves» of the biology course of Mova's primary school wi --- [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/11/) [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/) / 11 # Roots, stems and leaves, sentence 11 Pea plants climb with tendrils that wrap round whatever they touch, reaching the light without building a thick stem; ivy climbs with tiny gripping roots. **Who acts:** Pea plants, tendrils, spines, ivy · **What happens:** climb, wrap, touch, reach, build, grip · **To what, where:** whatever, light, thick stem 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 (Pea plants, tendrils, spines, ivy), 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:11 # text = Pea plants climb with tendrils that wrap round whatever they touch, reaching the light without building a thick stem; ivy climbs with tiny gripping roots. # 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): no change 1 Pea pea NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 climb climb VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 tendrils tendril NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 wrap wrap VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 round round ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 whatever whatever PRON WP PronType=Rel 7 obj _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 touch touch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 reaching reach VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 without without SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 17 building build VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 stem stem NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 ivy ivy NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 climbs climb VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 26 gripping grip VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 amod _ _ 27 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 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 | **climb** | present | Pea plants | | | | | with tendrils | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **wrap** | present | tendrils | whatever | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent whatever=Theme | | 3 | **touch** | present | spines *= spine* | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **reach** | gerund | Pea plants *not said here* | the light | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent light=Theme | | 5 | **build** | gerund | Pea plants *not said here* | a thick stem | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset stem=Product | | 6 | **climb** | present | ivy | | | | | with tiny gripping roots | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **grip** | gerund | | | | | | | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:11`. **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/). - ← previous: [Roots, stems and leaves, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/57-roots-stems-and-leaves/10/) - next →: [Roots, stems and leaves, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/57-roots-stems-and-leaves/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/57-roots-stems-and-leaves/)