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title: Roots anchor a plant in the soil so wind and rain cannot easily pull… — Parts of a plant and what each does · tree and pragmatics
description: Roots anchor a plant in the soil so wind and rain cannot easily pull it out. Who acts: Roots, wind. 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 5

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Roots anchor a plant in the soil so wind and rain cannot easily pull it out.

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**Who acts:** Roots, wind · **What happens:** anchor, not pull out · **To what, where:** plant, soil

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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 (Roots, wind), 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:5
# text = Roots anchor a plant in the soil so wind and rain cannot easily pull it out.
# 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
1	Roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	anchor	anchor	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
9	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
14	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **anchor** | present | Roots | a plant |  | the soil |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **pull out** | can | wind and rain | plant |  |  |  | easily *property* | tree rules |

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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:5`.

**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. **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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