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title: Dandelion seeds float on tiny parachutes into pavement cracks, where… — The city as a habitat · tree and pragmatics
description: Dandelion seeds float on tiny parachutes into pavement cracks, where dust and water collect, and a long taproot finds water deep down. Who acts: Dandelion seeds, dust, long taproot. A sentence of the lesson «The city as a habitat» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr
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# The city as a habitat, sentence 9

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Dandelion seeds float on tiny parachutes into pavement cracks, where dust and water collect, and a long taproot finds water deep down.

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**Who acts:** Dandelion seeds, dust, long taproot · **What happens:** float, collect, find · **To what, where:** tiny parachutes, water

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The city as a habitat» of the biology 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 (Dandelion seeds, dust, long taproot), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:014-the-city-as-a-habitat.lesson:9
# text = Dandelion seeds float on tiny parachutes into pavement cracks, where dust and water collect, and a long taproot finds water deep down.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 014-the-city-as-a-habitat.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3
1	Dandelion	dandelion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	float	float	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	parachutes	parachute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	pavement	pavement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	cracks	crack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	15	advmod	_	_
12	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	collect	collect	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	taproot	taproot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	deep	deep	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:advmod
24	down	down	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **float** | present | Dandelion seeds |  |  | tiny parachutes |  | into pavement cracks | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme on parachute=Source into crack=Trajectory |
| 2 | **collect** | present | dust and water |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **find** | present | a long taproot | water |  |  |  | down *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Topic |

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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:biology:014-the-city-as-a-habitat.lesson:9`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3. **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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