--- title: Bluebells grow from bulbs and flower in April and May, before the tr… — Forests: woodland through the year and the great… · tree and pragmatics description: Bluebells grow from bulbs and flower in April and May, before the trees above are fully in leaf, because that is when sunlight still reaches the forest floor; about half of all the world's bluebells grow in Britain. Who acts: Bluebells, trees, that, sunlight. 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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 (Bluebells, trees, that, sunlight), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:012-forests-woodland-through-the-year.lesson:7 # text = Bluebells grow from bulbs and flower in April and May, before the trees above are fully in leaf, because that is when sunlight still reaches the forest floor; about half of all the world's bluebells grow in Britain. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 012-forests-woodland-through-the-year.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 Bluebells bluebell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 from from ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 bulbs bulb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 April April PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 May May PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 12 before before SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 15 above above ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 17 fully fully ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 leaf leaf NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 advcl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 21 because because SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 22 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 24 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 40 advmod _ _ 25 sunlight sunlight NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 26 still still ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 reaches reach VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl:relcl _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 31 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 about about ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 40 nsubj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 35 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 37 det:predet _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod:poss _ _ 38 's 's PART POS _ 37 case _ _ 39 bluebells bluebell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nmod _ _ 40 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | present | Bluebells | | | | | from bulbs and flower in April and May | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from bulb=Patient | | 2 | **is** | present | the trees | | | leaf | | fully *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | that | | | | | when *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **reach** | present | sunlight | the forest floor | | | still | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent floor=Theme | | 5 | **grow** | present | half of all world's bluebells | | | Britain | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in britain=Location | 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. 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