--- title: Longer, unmown grass lets clover, daisies and other flowers bloom an… — The garden in summer: flowers, aphids, ladybirds… · tree and pragmatics description: Longer, unmown grass lets clover, daisies and other flowers bloom and feed bees and butterflies, and «No Mow May» asks people to skip mowing for a month. Who acts: Longer unmown grass, clover, Mow. 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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 (Longer unmown grass, clover, Mow), 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:11 # text = Longer, unmown grass lets clover, daisies and other flowers bloom and feed bees and butterflies, and «No Mow May» asks people to skip mowing for a month. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Longer long ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 amod _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 unmown unmown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 clover clover NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 daisies daisy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=8:conj 12 bloom bloom VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 xcomp _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 feed feed VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 15 bees bee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 butterflies butterfly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 20 « « PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 21 No no DET DT PronType=Neg 22 det _ _ 22 Mow mow NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 23 May May PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 flat _ _ 24 » » PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 25 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 26 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 skip skip VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:advcl 29 mowing mow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 xcomp _ _ 30 for for ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | present | Longer unmown grass | clover and daisies and other flowers | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **bloom** | present | clover and daisies and other flowers *not said here* | | | | | | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **feed** | infinitive | clover and daisies and other flowers *not said here* | | bees and butterflies | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bee=Recipient | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | no Mow | | people | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **skip** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | no Mow *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **mow** | gerund | no Mow *not said here* | | | | month | | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | 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:11`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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