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title: Plants grow towards light because their leaves need it to make food,… — Fuels, the Sun and saving energy · tree and pragmatics
description: Plants grow towards light because their leaves need it to make food, storing the energy as sugar. Who acts: Plants, leaves, light. A sentence of the lesson «Fuels, the Sun and saving energy» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fuels, the Sun and saving energy, sentence 15

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Plants grow towards light because their leaves need it to make food, storing the energy as sugar.

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**Who acts:** Plants, leaves, light · **What happens:** grow, need, make, store · **To what, where:** light, food, energy

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Fuels, the Sun and saving energy» of the physics 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, leaves, light), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:physics:032-fuels-the-sun-and-saving-energy.lesson:15
# text = Plants grow towards light because their leaves need it to make food, storing the energy as sugar.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = physics
# lesson = 032-fuels-the-sun-and-saving-energy.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	Plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
12	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	storing	store	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	.	.	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 | **grow** | present | Plants |  |  |  |  | towards light | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **need** | present | Plants's leaves | light |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | light *not said here* | food |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset food=Product |
| 4 | **store** | gerund | light *not said here* | the energy |  |  |  | as sugar | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=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:physics:032-fuels-the-sun-and-saving-energy.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): 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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