--- title: Willows love wet ground and grow fast; willow bark has a chemical us… — Park trees: telling oaks, maples, chestnuts, bir… · tree and pragmatics description: Willows love wet ground and grow fast; willow bark has a chemical used long ago to ease pain, and the medicine aspirin was later made from a similar chemical. Who acts: Willows, willow bark. 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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 (Willows, willow bark), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:339-park-trees-telling-oaks-maples-chestnuts-birches-limes-and-willows-apart.lesson:13 # text = Willows love wet ground and grow fast; willow bark has a chemical used long ago to ease pain, and the medicine aspirin was later made from a similar chemical. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 339-park-trees-telling-oaks-maples-chestnuts-birches-limes-and-willows-apart.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Willows willow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 love love VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 7 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 6 advmod _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 willow willow NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 bark bark NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 chemical chemical NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 acl _ _ 15 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 16 advmod _ _ 16 ago ago ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 ease ease VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 19 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 medicine medicine NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 aspirin aspirin NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 26 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 27 advmod _ _ 27 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 conj _ _ 28 from from ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 similar similar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 chemical chemical NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:obl|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 32 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **love** | present | Willows | wet ground | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ground=Stimulus | | 2 | **grow** | present | Willows *not said here* | | | | | fast *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **have** | present | willow bark | a chemical | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chemical=Patient | | 4 | **use** | participle | | a chemical *not said here* | | | | ago *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **ease** | to-infinitive | | pain | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pain=Patient | | 6 | **make** | past · passive | | the medicine aspirin | | a similar chemical | | late *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from chemical=Material | 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:339-park-trees-telling-oaks-maples-chestnuts-birches-limes-and-willows-apart.lesson:13`. **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): 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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