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title: Plants take in carbon dioxide and use it to build sugar and wood. — Molecules: when atoms join up · tree and pragmatics
description: Plants take in carbon dioxide and use it to build sugar and wood. Who acts: Plants. A sentence of the lesson «Molecules: when atoms join up» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Molecules: when atoms join up, sentence 8

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Plants take in carbon dioxide and use it to build sugar and wood.

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**Who acts:** Plants · **What happens:** take in, use, build · **To what, where:** carbon dioxide, water, sugar

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Molecules: when atoms join up» of the chemistry 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 (Plants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chemistry:003-molecules-when-atoms-join-up.lesson:8
# text = Plants take in carbon dioxide and use it to build sugar and wood.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chemistry
# lesson = 003-molecules-when-atoms-join-up.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
4	carbon	carbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	dioxide	dioxide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
11	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **take in** | present | Plants | carbon dioxide |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dioxide=Theme |
| 2 | **use** | present | Plants *not said here* | water |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **build** | to-infinitive | Plants *not said here* | sugar and wood |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sugar=Product |

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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:chemistry:003-molecules-when-atoms-join-up.lesson:8`.

**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, R8-pos-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/).

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