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title: Grass survives grazing and fire because it grows from near the groun… — Deserts, rainforests and grasslands · tree and pragmatics
description: Grass survives grazing and fire because it grows from near the ground, not from its tips: when an antelope bites off the top, or a fire sweeps over, the grass grows again from its base. Who acts: Grass, antelope, fire. A sentence of the lesson «Deserts, rainforests and grasslands» of the world cours
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# Deserts, rainforests and grasslands, sentence 9

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Grass survives grazing and fire because it grows from near the ground, not from its tips: when an antelope bites off the top, or a fire sweeps over, the grass grows again from its base.

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**Who acts:** Grass, antelope, fire · **What happens:** survive, grow, bite off, sweep over · **To what, where:** grazing, tips, top

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Deserts, rainforests and grasslands» 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 (Grass, antelope, fire), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:066-deserts-rainforests-grasslands.lesson:9
# text = Grass survives grazing and fire because it grows from near the ground, not from its tips: when an antelope bites off the top, or a fire sweeps over, the grass grows again from its base.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 066-deserts-rainforests-grasslands.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): no change
1	Grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	survives	survive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	grazing	grazing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	near	near	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	tips	tip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	22	mark	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	antelope	antelope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	bites	bite	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	advcl	_	_
23	off	off	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	sweeps	sweep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
31	over	over	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
36	again	again	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
37	from	from	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	base	base	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
40	.	.	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 | **survive** | present | Grass | grazing and fire |  | Grass's tips |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme grazing=Circumstance |
| 2 | **grow** | present | Grass |  |  |  |  | from the ground | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from ground=Patient |
| 3 | **bite off** | present | a antelope | the top |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent top=Patient |
| 4 | **sweep over** | present | a fire |  |  |  |  | over *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **grow** | present | the grass |  |  |  | again | from Grass's base | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from base=Patient |

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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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**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): no change. **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.

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