--- title: Horse chestnut buds are covered in sticky stuff that keeps out insec… — The garden in spring: buds, frogspawn, queen bum… · tree and pragmatics description: Horse chestnut buds are covered in sticky stuff that keeps out insects and cold, and inside them the whole leaf and flower are packed tightly, ready to open. Who acts: sticky stuff. A sentence of the lesson «The garden in spring: buds, frogspawn, queen bumblebees and nesting birds» of the biology co --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/333-the-garden-in-spring-buds-frogspawn-queen-bumblebees-and-nesting-birds/4/) [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/) / [The garden in spring: buds, frogspawn,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/333-the-garden-in-spring-buds-frogspawn-queen-bumblebees-and-nesting-birds/) / 4 # The garden in spring: buds, frogspawn, queen bumblebees and nesting birds, sentence 4 Horse chestnut buds are covered in sticky stuff that keeps out insects and cold, and inside them the whole leaf and flower are packed tightly, ready to open. **Who acts:** sticky stuff · **What happens:** cover, keep out, pack, open · **To what, where:** chestnut buds, insects, whole leaf 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 stuff), 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:4 # text = Horse chestnut buds are covered in sticky stuff that keeps out insects and cold, and inside them the whole leaf and flower are packed tightly, ready to open. # 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 ×2, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:compound 2 chestnut chestnut NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 buds bud NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 sticky sticky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 stuff stuff NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 out out ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=12:cc 14 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 17 inside inside ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obl _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 leaf leaf NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=21:cc 23 flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 24 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux:pass _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:cop 25 packed pack VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 26 tightly tightly ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:advmod 27 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 28 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 advcl _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 open open VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cover** | present · passive | | chestnut buds | | | | in sticky stuff | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in stuff=Theme | | 2 | **keep out** | present | sticky stuff | insects | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Theme | | 3 | **pack** | present · passive | | the whole leaf and flower | | | | inside buds *= bud*; tightly *property* | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme inside they=Destination | | 4 | **open** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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:333-the-garden-in-spring-buds-frogspawn-queen-bumblebees-and-nesting-birds.lesson:4`. **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, 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. 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