--- title: Conkers are the seeds of the horse chestnut; a spiky case usually ho… — The garden in autumn: colours, conkers, webs and… · tree and pragmatics description: Conkers are the seeds of the horse chestnut; a spiky case usually holds one, sometimes two or three, and conkers are poisonous to eat, unlike sweet chestnuts. Who acts: Conkers, spiky case. 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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 (Conkers, spiky case), 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:7 # text = Conkers are the seeds of the horse chestnut; a spiky case usually holds one, sometimes two or three, and conkers are poisonous to eat, unlike sweet chestnuts. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Conkers conker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 chestnut chestnut NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 spiky spiky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 case case NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 13 usually usually ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 holds hold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 15 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 18 advmod _ _ 18 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 conj _ _ 19 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 conkers conker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 24 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 poisonous poisonous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:xcomp 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 unlike unlike ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 chestnuts chestnut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Conkers | the seeds | | | | of the horse chestnut | tree rules | | 2 | **hold** | present | a spiky case | one | | | | usually *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | conkers | | | | | poisonous *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **eat** | to-infinitive | conkers *not said here* | | | | | unlike sweet chestnuts | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:335-the-garden-in-autumn-colours-conkers-webs-and-buried-nuts.lesson:7`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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