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title: Plants store extra sugar as starch, for example in potatoes and grai… — How plants make their food · tree and pragmatics
description: Plants store extra sugar as starch, for example in potatoes and grains. 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 14

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Plants store extra sugar as starch, for example in potatoes and grains.

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**Who acts:** Plants · **What happens:** store · **To what, where:** extra sugar, potatoes

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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:14
# text = Plants store extra sugar as starch, for example in potatoes and grains.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	Plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	store	store	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	starch	starch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	potatoes	potato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	grains	grain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | Plants | extra sugar |  | potatoes and grains |  | as starch; for example | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sugar=Theme in potato=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:022-photosynthesis.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. **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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