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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, plants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:091-being-a-scientist.lesson:4 # text = Example: to find out whether plants grow better with plant food, you grow two groups of the same plants in the same pots, soil, light and water, and give plant food to only one group. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 091-being-a-scientist.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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 : : PUNCT : _ 1 punct _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:acl 5 out out ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 9 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 8 xcomp _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj 16 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 groups group NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 pots pot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 appos _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 35 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 40 case _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=40:case|HaikuPos=ADP:TO:_ 38 only only ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=40:advmod 39 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 40 nummod _ _ 40 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find out** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **grow** | present | plants | | | | | good *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **grow** | present | you | two groups of the same plants | | the same pots and soil | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location group=Theme | | 4 | **give** | present | you *not said here* | plant food | one group | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent food=Theme to group=Recipient | 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. **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:091-being-a-scientist.lesson:4`. **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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [Being a scientist — fair tests, guesse…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/91-being-a-scientist/3/) - next →: [Being a scientist — fair tests, guesse…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/91-being-a-scientist/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/91-being-a-scientist/)