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title: So a plant is mostly built from air and water, not from soil: a huge… — How plants make their food · tree and pragmatics
description: So a plant is mostly built from air and water, not from soil: a huge oak tree is made mainly of carbon taken from the air. 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 3

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So a plant is mostly built from air and water, not from soil: a huge oak tree is made mainly of carbon taken from the air.

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**What happens:** build, make, take · **To what, where:** plant, air, huge oak tree, carbon

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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: 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:3
# text = So a plant is mostly built from air and water, not from soil: a huge oak tree is made mainly of carbon taken from the air.
# 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	So	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
22	mainly	mainly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:advmod
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	carbon	carbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **build** | present · passive |  | a plant |  | air and water and soil |  | mostly *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from air=Material |
| 2 | **make** | present · passive |  | a huge oak tree |  |  |  | of carbon; mainly *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 3 | **take** | participle |  | carbon *not said here* |  | the air |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from air=Initial\_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:3`.

**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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