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title: Plants also breathe, using some oxygen, all day and night, but in da… — How plants make their food · tree and pragmatics
description: Plants also breathe, using some oxygen, all day and night, but in daylight they make much more oxygen than they use. Who acts: Plants. A sentence of the lesson «How plants make their food» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# How plants make their food, sentence 12

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Plants also breathe, using some oxygen, all day and night, but in daylight they make much more oxygen than they use.

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**Who acts:** Plants · **What happens:** breathe, use, make · **To what, where:** oxygen, more oxygen, daylight

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This is a sentence of the lesson «How plants make their food» 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:022-photosynthesis.lesson:12
# text = Plants also breathe, using some oxygen, all day and night, but in daylight they make much more oxygen than they use.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 022-photosynthesis.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	Plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	also	also	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	breathe	breathe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	using	use	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	daylight	daylight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis
19	much	much	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	amod	_	_
21	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **breathe** | present | Plants |  |  |  | day |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **use** | gerund | Plants *not said here* | some oxygen |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oxygen=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | present | Plants *= plant* | more oxygen |  | daylight |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset oxygen=Product |
| 4 | **use** | present | Plants *= plant* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:022-photosynthesis.lesson:12`.

**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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