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title: An apple cut across shows a star of five seed chambers, each with up… — The garden in autumn: colours, conkers, webs and… · tree and pragmatics
description: An apple cut across shows a star of five seed chambers, each with up to two seeds, so an apple usually holds up to ten seeds. Who acts: apple. A sentence of the lesson «The garden in autumn: colours, conkers, webs and buried nuts» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr
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# The garden in autumn: colours, conkers, webs and buried nuts, sentence 17

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An apple cut across shows a star of five seed chambers, each with up to two seeds, so an apple usually holds up to ten seeds.

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**Who acts:** apple · **What happens:** cut, show, hold up · **To what, where:** apple, star

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The garden in autumn: colours, conkers, webs and buried nuts» 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 (apple), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:335-the-garden-in-autumn-colours-conkers-webs-and-buried-nuts.lesson:17
# text = An apple cut across shows a star of five seed chambers, each with up to two seeds, so an apple usually holds up to ten seeds.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 335-the-garden-in-autumn-colours-conkers-webs-and-buried-nuts.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	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	across	across	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
10	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	chambers	chamber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	each	each	PRON	DT	PronType=Tot	11	appos	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **cut** | participle |  | a apple *not said here* |  |  |  | across *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **show** | present | a apple | a star of five seed chambers |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent star=Recipient |
| 3 | **hold up** | present | a apple |  |  |  |  | to ten seeds; usually *property* | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |

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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): 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.

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