--- title: Look at a rose stem covered in tiny green aphids sucking sweet sap. — The garden in summer: flowers, aphids, ladybirds… · tree and pragmatics description: Look at a rose stem covered in tiny green aphids sucking sweet sap. Who acts: you, tiny green aphids. A sentence of the lesson «The garden in summer: flowers, aphids, ladybirds and flying ant day» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/334-the-garden-in-summer-flowers-aphids-ladybirds-and-flying-ant-day/1/) [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 summer: flowers, aphids,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/334-the-garden-in-summer-flowers-aphids-ladybirds-and-flying-ant-day/) / 1 # The garden in summer: flowers, aphids, ladybirds and flying ant day, sentence 1 Look at a rose stem covered in tiny green aphids sucking sweet sap. **Who acts:** you, tiny green aphids · **What happens:** look, cover, suck · **To what, where:** rose stem, sweet sap This is a sentence of the lesson «The garden in summer: flowers, aphids, ladybirds and flying ant day» 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 (you, tiny green aphids), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:334-the-garden-in-summer-flowers-aphids-ladybirds-and-flying-ant-day.lesson:1 # text = Look at a rose stem covered in tiny green aphids sucking sweet sap. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 334-the-garden-in-summer-flowers-aphids-ladybirds-and-flying-ant-day.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): no change 1 Look look VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 rose rose NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 stem stem NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 6 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 aphids aphid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 11 sucking suck VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 acl _ _ 12 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 sap sap NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | at a rose stem | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at stem=Theme | | 2 | **cover** | participle | | a rose stem *not said here* | | | | in tiny green aphids | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in aphid=Theme | | 3 | **suck** | gerund | tiny green aphids *not said here* | sweet sap | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent sap=Source | 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:334-the-garden-in-summer-flowers-aphids-ladybirds-and-flying-ant-day.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): no change. **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 garden in summer: flowers, aphids,…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/334-the-garden-in-summer-flowers-aphids-ladybirds-and-flying-ant-day/0/) - next →: [The garden in summer: flowers, aphids,…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/334-the-garden-in-summer-flowers-aphids-ladybirds-and-flying-ant-day/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/334-the-garden-in-summer-flowers-aphids-ladybirds-and-flying-ant-day/)