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title: Daffodils and snowdrops flower before the trees have leaves, using f… — The garden in spring: buds, frogspawn, queen bum… · tree and pragmatics
description: Daffodils and snowdrops flower before the trees have leaves, using food stored in their bulbs to catch sunlight before the trees shade the ground; daffodil bulbs look like onions but are poisonous. Who acts: Daffodils, trees, daffodil bulbs. A sentence of the lesson «The garden in spring: buds, frog
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# The garden in spring: buds, frogspawn, queen bumblebees and nesting birds, sentence 11

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Daffodils and snowdrops flower before the trees have leaves, using food stored in their bulbs to catch sunlight before the trees shade the ground; daffodil bulbs look like onions but are poisonous.

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**Who acts:** Daffodils, trees, daffodil bulbs · **What happens:** flower, have, use, store, catch, shade · **To what, where:** leaves, food, bulbs, sunlight, ground

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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 (Daffodils, trees, daffodil bulbs), 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:11
# text = Daffodils and snowdrops flower before the trees have leaves, using food stored in their bulbs to catch sunlight before the trees shade the ground; daffodil bulbs look like onions but are poisonous.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Daffodils	daffodil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=1:cc
3	snowdrops	snowdrop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	flower	flower	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
9	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	using	use	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
12	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	stored	store	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	bulbs	bulb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
19	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	shade	shade	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	daffodil	daffodil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	bulbs	bulb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
29	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
30	like	like	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	onions	onion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
32	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	conj	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **flower** | present | Daffodils and snowdrops |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | present | the trees | leaves |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient |
| 3 | **use** | gerund | Daffodils and snowdrops *not said here* | food |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient |
| 4 | **store** | participle |  | food *not said here* |  | trees's bulbs |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in bulb=Location |
| 5 | **catch** | to-infinitive | Daffodils and snowdrops *not said here* | sunlight |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sunlight=Theme |
| 6 | **shade** | present | the trees | the ground |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ground=Beneficiary |
| 7 | **look** | present | daffodil bulbs |  |  |  |  | like onions | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 8 | **is** | present | daffodil bulbs *not said here* |  |  |  |  | poisonous *property* | tree rules |

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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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**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 ×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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