--- title: Mangrove seeds sprout while still on the tree, drop as long spikes,… — Mangroves: trees in salt water, mudskippers, arc… · tree and pragmatics description: Mangrove seeds sprout while still on the tree, drop as long spikes, and can float for months until they reach mud and grow roots. Who acts: Mangrove seeds, seeds. A sentence of the lesson «Mangroves: trees in salt water, mudskippers, archerfish and swimming tigers» of the biology course of Mova's pr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/178-mangroves-trees-in-salt-water-mudskippers-archerfish-and-swimming-tigers/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Mangroves: trees in salt water, mudski…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/178-mangroves-trees-in-salt-water-mudskippers-archerfish-and-swimming-tigers/) / 11 # Mangroves: trees in salt water, mudskippers, archerfish and swimming tigers, sentence 11 Mangrove seeds sprout while still on the tree, drop as long spikes, and can float for months until they reach mud and grow roots. **Who acts:** Mangrove seeds, seeds · **What happens:** sprout, drop, float, reach, grow · **To what, where:** mud, roots This is a sentence of the lesson «Mangroves: trees in salt water, mudskippers, archerfish and swimming tigers» 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 (Mangrove seeds, seeds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:178-mangroves-trees-in-salt-water-mudskippers-archerfish-and-swimming-tigers.lesson:11 # text = Mangrove seeds sprout while still on the tree, drop as long spikes, and can float for months until they reach mud and grow roots. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 178-mangroves-trees-in-salt-water-mudskippers-archerfish-and-swimming-tigers.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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Mangrove mangrove NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 sprout sprout VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 while while SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 5 still still ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:det 8 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:compound 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 10 drop drop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 11 as as ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 spikes spike NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc 16 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 float float VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 20 until until SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 reach reach VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 23 mud mud NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=22:cc 25 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 26 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sprout** | present | Mangrove seeds | | | | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | | 2 | **drop** | present | Mangrove seeds *not said here* | | | | still | as long spikes | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as spike=Attribute | | 3 | **float** | can | Mangrove seeds *not said here* | | | | month | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **reach** | present | seeds *= seed* | mud | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent mud=Theme | | 5 | **grow** | present | seeds *= seed* *not said here* | roots | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location root=Theme | 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:biology:178-mangroves-trees-in-salt-water-mudskippers-archerfish-and-swimming-tigers.lesson:11`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-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. 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