--- title: Cartoons show plants drinking through their leaves when it rains and… — Roots, stems and leaves · tree and pragmatics description: Cartoons show plants drinking through their leaves when it rains and roots as just a few strings; in real life almost all the water goes in through the roots, which can spread far wider and deeper than the plant above. Who acts: Cartoons, plants, it, 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 (Cartoons, plants, it, 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:4 # text = Cartoons show plants drinking through their leaves when it rains and roots as just a few strings; in real life almost all the water goes in through the roots, which can spread far wider and deeper than the plant above. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Cartoons cartoon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 drinking drink VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 ccomp _ _ 5 through through ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 8 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 10 advmod _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 rains rain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 13 as as ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 14 just just ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 strings string NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 22 almost almost ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 25 det:predet _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 27 in in ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 28 through through ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 34 nsubj _ _ 33 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 spread spread VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 acl:relcl _ _ 35 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 36 advmod _ _ 36 wider wide ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 34 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:xcomp 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 deeper deep ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 36 conj _ _ 39 than than ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 42 above above ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | present | Cartoons | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **drink** | gerund | plants | | | Cartoons's leaves and roots as a few strings | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **rain** | present | it | | | | | | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | | 4 | **go in** | present | all water | | | real life | | through the roots | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through root=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **spread** | can | the roots | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:4`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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: [Roots, stems and leaves, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/57-roots-stems-and-leaves/3/) - next →: [Roots, stems and leaves, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/57-roots-stems-and-leaves/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/57-roots-stems-and-leaves/)