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title: Growing the cotton for one T-shirt often takes over two thousand lit… — Clothes: T-shirts, jeans and trainers · tree and pragmatics
description: Growing the cotton for one T-shirt often takes over two thousand litres of water. Who acts: Growing. A sentence of the lesson «Clothes: T-shirts, jeans and trainers» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Clothes: T-shirts, jeans and trainers, sentence 6

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Growing the cotton for one T-shirt often takes over two thousand litres of water.

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**Who acts:** Growing · **What happens:** grow, take over · **To what, where:** cotton, thousand litres

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Clothes: T-shirts, jeans and trainers» of the technology 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 (Growing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:technology:005-clothes-t-shirts-jeans-and-trainers.lesson:6
# text = Growing the cotton for one T-shirt often takes over two thousand litres of water.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = technology
# lesson = 005-clothes-t-shirts-jeans-and-trainers.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	Growing	grow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:nsubj
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cotton	cotton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
6	T	t	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
8	shirt	shirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
9	often	often	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	over	over	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	compound	_	_
13	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	litres	litre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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** | gerund |  | the cotton |  |  |  | for one T shirt | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent cotton=Product for shirt=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **take over** | present | Growing | thousand litres of water |  |  |  | often *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent litre=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:technology:005-clothes-t-shirts-jeans-and-trainers.lesson:6`.

**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/).

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