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title: The baobab stores large amounts of water in its spongy trunk to surv… — Trees · tree and pragmatics
description: The baobab stores large amounts of water in its spongy trunk to survive months without rain, drops its leaves in the dry season so it does not lose water through them, and some baobabs are over 1000 years old. Who acts: baobab, baobabs. A sentence of the lesson «Trees» of the biology course of Mova'
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# Trees, sentence 15

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The baobab stores large amounts of water in its spongy trunk to survive months without rain, drops its leaves in the dry season so it does not lose water through them, and some baobabs are over 1000 years old.

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**Who acts:** baobab, baobabs · **What happens:** store, survive, drop, not lose, be, amount · **To what, where:** large amounts, spongy trunk, leaves, water

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Trees» 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 (baobab, baobabs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:060-trees.lesson:15
# text = The baobab stores large amounts of water in its spongy trunk to survive months without rain, drops its leaves in the dry season so it does not lose water through them, and some baobabs are over 1000 years old.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 060-trees.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	baobab	baobab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stores	store	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	amounts	amount	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	spongy	spongy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	trunk	trunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	survive	survive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:acl
14	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	without	without	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	drops	drop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
30	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
31	through	through	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
35	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	36	det	_	_
36	baobabs	baobab	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj	_	_
37	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
38	over	over	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=40:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
39	1000	1000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	40	nummod	_	_
40	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl:unmarked	_	_
41	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **store** | present | the baobab | large amounts of water |  | baobab's spongy trunk |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent amount=Theme in trunk=Location |
| 2 | **survive** | to-infinitive | the baobab *not said here* |  |  |  | month | without rain | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **drop** | present | the baobab *not said here* | baobab's leaves |  |  | season |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **lose** | present · do-support | baobab | water |  |  |  | through leaves *= leaf* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Eventuality |
| 5 | **is** | present | some baobabs |  |  |  | year | old *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **amount** |  |  | water |  |  |  |  | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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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**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3. **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.

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