--- title: Studies on talking to plants are mixed; any effect might come from b… — Let's test it! Experiments and fair tests · tree and pragmatics description: Studies on talking to plants are mixed; any effect might come from breath, attention or extra care, so it is not proven. Who acts: Studies, effect. A sentence of the lesson «Let's test it! Experiments and fair tests» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragm --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/29-let-s-test-it-experiments-and-fair-tests/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/) / [Let's test it! Experiments and fair te…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/29-let-s-test-it-experiments-and-fair-tests/) / 7 # Let's test it! Experiments and fair tests, sentence 7 Studies on talking to plants are mixed; any effect might come from breath, attention or extra care, so it is not proven. **Who acts:** Studies, effect · **What happens:** talk, mix, come, not prove · **To what, where:** Studies, breath, effect 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 (Studies, effect), 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:7 # text = Studies on talking to plants are mixed; any effect might come from breath, attention or extra care, so it is not proven. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Studies study NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 on on SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 3 talking talk VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 acl _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 mixed mix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 10 det _ _ 10 effect effect NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 13 from from ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 breath breath NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 attention attention NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 17 or or CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 extra extra ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux:pass _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 proven prove VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 advcl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **talk** | gerund | Studies *not said here* | | | | | to plants | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to plant=Co-Agent | | 2 | **mix** | present · passive | | Studies | | | | | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **come** | might | any effect | | | breath and attention or extra care | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from breath=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **not** **prove** | present · passive | | effect | | | | | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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:myths:029-let-s-test-it-experiments-and-fair-tests.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): 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: [Let's test it! Experiments and fair te…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/29-let-s-test-it-experiments-and-fair-tests/6/) - next →: [Let's test it! Experiments and fair te…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/29-let-s-test-it-experiments-and-fair-tests/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/29-let-s-test-it-experiments-and-fair-tests/)