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title: Plants catch sunlight to make food; we eat plants, or animals that a… — Energy — where it comes from and how to save it · tree and pragmatics
description: Plants catch sunlight to make food; we eat plants, or animals that ate plants, and get energy for our bodies. Who acts: Plants, we, animals. A sentence of the lesson «Energy — where it comes from and how to save it» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Energy — where it comes from and how to save it, sentence 3

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Plants catch sunlight to make food; we eat plants, or animals that ate plants, and get energy for our bodies.

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**Who acts:** Plants, we, animals · **What happens:** catch, make, eat, ate, get · **To what, where:** sunlight, food, plants, energy

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Energy — where it comes from and how to save it» 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, we, animals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:056-energy.lesson:3
# text = Plants catch sunlight to make food; we eat plants, or animals that ate plants, and get energy for our bodies.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 056-energy.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	catch	catch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
6	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
10	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	ate	ate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
20	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
24	.	.	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 | **catch** | present | Plants | sunlight |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sunlight=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | Plants *not said here* | food |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset food=Product |
| 3 | **eat** | present | we | plants or animals |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Patient |
| 4 | **ate** | past | animals | plants |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **get** | present | we *not said here* | energy |  |  |  | for our bodies | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent energy=Theme for body=Source |

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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:056-energy.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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