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title: The horse chestnut's sticky buds burst open, a clump of frogspawn wo… — The garden in spring: buds, frogspawn, queen bum… · tree and pragmatics
description: The horse chestnut's sticky buds burst open, a clump of frogspawn wobbles in the pond like jelly with black dots, and a huge furry queen bumblebee zigzags low over the lawn hunting for an old mouse hole to start her nest. Who acts: sticky buds, huge furry bumblebee zigzags. A sentence of the lesson 
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# The garden in spring: buds, frogspawn, queen bumblebees and nesting birds, sentence 1

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The horse chestnut's sticky buds burst open, a clump of frogspawn wobbles in the pond like jelly with black dots, and a huge furry queen bumblebee zigzags low over the lawn hunting for an old mouse hole to start her nest.

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**Who acts:** sticky buds, huge furry bumblebee zigzags · **What happens:** burst, wobble, hunting, start · **To what, where:** pond, nest

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The garden in spring: buds, frogspawn, queen bumblebees and nesting birds» 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 (sticky buds, huge furry bumblebee zigzags), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:333-the-garden-in-spring-buds-frogspawn-queen-bumblebees-and-nesting-birds.lesson:1
# text = The horse chestnut's sticky buds burst open, a clump of frogspawn wobbles in the pond like jelly with black dots, and a huge furry queen bumblebee zigzags low over the lawn hunting for an old mouse hole to start her nest.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 333-the-garden-in-spring-buds-frogspawn-queen-bumblebees-and-nesting-birds.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	chestnut	chestnut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	sticky	sticky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	buds	bud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	burst	burst	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	clump	clump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	frogspawn	frogspawn	NOUN	VB	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	wobbles	wobble	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	like	like	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	jelly	jelly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	dots	dot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
26	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
27	furry	furry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
28	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	bumblebee	bumblebee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:nsubj
30	zigzags	zigzag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBZ:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
31	low	low	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	30	advmod	_	_
32	over	over	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	lawn	lawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
35	hunting	hunting	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	acl	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
37	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
38	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
39	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:obj
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	acl	_	_
43	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burst** | past | the horse chestnut's sticky buds |  |  |  |  | open *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **wobble** | present | the horse chestnut's sticky buds *not said here* |  |  | the pond like jelly with black dots |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pond=Location |
| 3 | **hunting** | gerund | a huge furry bumblebee zigzags *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for a old mouse hole | tree rules |
| 4 | **start** | to-infinitive | a huge furry bumblebee zigzags *not said here* | her nest |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Eventuality |

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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:333-the-garden-in-spring-buds-frogspawn-queen-bumblebees-and-nesting-birds.lesson:1`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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/).

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