--- title: Willow catkins are flowers, soft like a cat's paw, which is why peop… — Park trees: telling oaks, maples, chestnuts, bir… · tree and pragmatics description: Willow catkins are flowers, soft like a cat's paw, which is why people call them pussy willow, and they are early food for bees. Who acts: Willow catkins, paw, people. A sentence of the lesson «Park trees: telling oaks, maples, chestnuts, birches, limes and willows apart» of the biology course of Mo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/339-park-trees-telling-oaks-maples-chestnuts-birches-limes-and-willows-apart/14/) [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/) / [Park trees: telling oaks, maples, ches…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/339-park-trees-telling-oaks-maples-chestnuts-birches-limes-and-willows-apart/) / 14 # Park trees: telling oaks, maples, chestnuts, birches, limes and willows apart, sentence 14 Willow catkins are flowers, soft like a cat's paw, which is why people call them pussy willow, and they are early food for bees. **Who acts:** Willow catkins, paw, people · **What happens:** be, call · **To what, where:** flowers, catkins, early food · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Park trees: telling oaks, maples, chestnuts, birches, limes and willows apart» 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 (Willow catkins, paw, people), 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:14 # text = Willow catkins are flowers, soft like a cat's paw, which is why people call them pussy willow, and they are early food for bees. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Willow willow NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 catkins catkin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 7 like like ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 paw paw NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:nmod 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 11 acl:relcl _ _ 16 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 18 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 pussy pussy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 willow willow NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:obj 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 24 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 early early ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 bees bee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Willow catkins | flowers and early food | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | a cat's paw | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **call** | present | people | catkins *= catkin* | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | | 4 | **is a** | present | people | early food | | | | for bees | tree rules | 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:14`. **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 ×3. **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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