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title: Stems have thin tubes that carry water up from the roots, and other… — Roots, stems and leaves · tree and pragmatics
description: Stems have thin tubes that carry water up from the roots, and other tubes that carry sugar round the plant. Who acts: Stems, thin tubes, other tubes. A sentence of the lesson «Roots, stems and leaves» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Roots, stems and leaves, sentence 7

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Stems have thin tubes that carry water up from the roots, and other tubes that carry sugar round the plant.

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**Who acts:** Stems, thin tubes, other tubes · **What happens:** have, carry up, carry · **To what, where:** thin tubes, water, roots, sugar

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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 (Stems, thin tubes, other tubes), 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:7
# text = Stems have thin tubes that carry water up from the roots, and other tubes that carry sugar round the plant.
# 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	Stems	stem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	tubes	tube	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	up	up	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	tubes	tube	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	round	round	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Stems | thin tubes and other tubes |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tube=Patient |
| 2 | **carry up** | present | thin tubes and other tubes | water |  | the roots |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent water=Theme from root=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **carry** | present | other tubes | sugar |  |  |  | round the plant | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sugar=Theme |

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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:057-roots-stems-and-leaves.lesson:7`.

**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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