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title: Plants need light, water, air and nutrients (plant food from the soi… — Let's test it! Experiments and fair tests · tree and pragmatics
description: Plants need light, water, air and nutrients (plant food from the soil); they do not need music, and studies on sound and plants are unclear. Who acts: Plants, studies. A sentence of the lesson «Let's test it! Experiments and fair tests» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependenc
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# Let's test it! Experiments and fair tests, sentence 15

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Plants need light, water, air and nutrients (plant food from the soil); they do not need music, and studies on sound and plants are unclear.

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**Who acts:** Plants, studies · **What happens:** need, not need, be · **To what, where:** light, music

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Let's test it! Experiments and fair tests» of the myths 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, studies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:029-let-s-test-it-experiments-and-fair-tests.lesson:15
# text = Plants need light, water, air and nutrients (plant food from the soil); they do not need music, and studies on sound and plants are unclear.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 029-let-s-test-it-experiments-and-fair-tests.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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	nutrients	nutrient	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
11	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:appos
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
22	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
25	studies	study	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
30	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	unclear	unclear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
32	.	.	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 | **need** | present | Plants | light and water and air and nutrients |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot light=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **need** | present · do-support | plants *= plant* | music |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot music=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | studies on sound and plants |  |  |  |  | unclear *property* | tree rules |

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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:myths:029-let-s-test-it-experiments-and-fair-tests.lesson:15`.

**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, R6-punct-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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