--- title: Cassowaries swallow fruit whole and spread the seeds of over 200 kin… — The rainforest from below: understorey and fores… · tree and pragmatics description: Cassowaries swallow fruit whole and spread the seeds of over 200 kinds of plants in their droppings. Who acts: Cassowaries. 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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 (Cassowaries), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:003-the-rainforest-from-below.lesson:17 # text = Cassowaries swallow fruit whole and spread the seeds of over 200 kinds of plants in their droppings. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 003-the-rainforest-from-below.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Cassowaries cassowary NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 swallow swallow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 fruit fruit NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 whole whole NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 spread spread VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 over over ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 11 200 200 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 droppings dropping NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod 18 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **swallow** | present | Cassowaries | fruit | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **spread** | present | Cassowaries *not said here* | the seeds of 200 kinds of plants | | plants's droppings | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent seed=Theme in dropping=Destination | 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:003-the-rainforest-from-below.lesson:17`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The rainforest from below: understorey…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/3-the-rainforest-from-below/16/) - next →: [The rainforest from below: understorey…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/3-the-rainforest-from-below/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/3-the-rainforest-from-below/)