--- title: The roots hold the plant in the soil and take in water and minerals;… — Parts of a plant and what each does · tree and pragmatics description: The roots hold the plant in the soil and take in water and minerals; the stem holds the plant up and carries water up and food around through thin tubes. Who acts: roots, stem. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (roots, stem), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:021-parts-of-a-plant.lesson:1 # text = The roots hold the plant in the soil and take in water and minerals; the stem holds the plant up and carries water up and food around through thin tubes. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 021-parts-of-a-plant.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 hold hold VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 11 in in ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 minerals mineral NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 stem stem NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 holds hold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 up up ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 carries carry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 24 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 25 up up ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 28 around around ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 29 through through ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 tubes tube NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** | present | the roots | the plant | | the soil | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent plant=Theme in soil=Location | | 2 | **take in** | present | the roots *not said here* | water and minerals | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | | 3 | **hold up** | present | the stem | the plant | | | | | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot plant=Theme | | 4 | **carry up** | present | the stem *not said here* | water and food | | thin tubes | | around *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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:world:021-parts-of-a-plant.lesson:1`. **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): 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/). - ← previous: [Parts of a plant and what each does, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/21-parts-of-a-plant/0/) - next →: [Parts of a plant and what each does, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/21-parts-of-a-plant/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/21-parts-of-a-plant/)