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title: Some plants store food in their roots, like carrots and sweet potato… — Parts of a plant and what each does · tree and pragmatics
description: Some plants store food in their roots, like carrots and sweet potatoes, or in underground stems, like potatoes. Who acts: plants. A sentence of the lesson «Parts of a plant and what each does» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Parts of a plant and what each does, sentence 14

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Some plants store food in their roots, like carrots and sweet potatoes, or in underground stems, like potatoes.

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**Who acts:** plants · **What happens:** store · **To what, where:** food, roots

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Parts of a plant and what each does» of the world 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), 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:14
# text = Some plants store food in their roots, like carrots and sweet potatoes, or in underground stems, like potatoes.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	store	store	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	carrots	carrot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	potatoes	potato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	underground	underground	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	stems	stem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	potatoes	potato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **store** | present | some plants | food |  | seeds's roots like carrots and sweet potatoes or underground stems like potatoes |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent food=Theme in root=Location |

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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:world:021-parts-of-a-plant.lesson:14`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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