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title: The oak drops acorns in little cups, the maple's leaf is shaped like… — Park trees: telling oaks, maples, chestnuts, bir… · tree and pragmatics
description: The oak drops acorns in little cups, the maple's leaf is shaped like an open hand and its seeds spin down like helicopters, and the horse chestnut's leaf spreads out like a hand with five to seven fingers. Who acts: oak, seeds, leaf. A sentence of the lesson «Park trees: telling oaks, maples, chestn
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# Park trees: telling oaks, maples, chestnuts, birches, limes and willows apart, sentence 2

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The oak drops acorns in little cups, the maple's leaf is shaped like an open hand and its seeds spin down like helicopters, and the horse chestnut's leaf spreads out like a hand with five to seven fingers.

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**Who acts:** oak, seeds, leaf · **What happens:** drop, shape, spin down, spread out · **To what, where:** acorns, little cups, leaf

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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 (oak, seeds, leaf), 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:2
# text = The oak drops acorns in little cups, the maple's leaf is shaped like an open hand and its seeds spin down like helicopters, and the horse chestnut's leaf spreads out like a hand with five to seven fingers.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	drops	drop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	acorns	acorn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	cups	cup	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	maple	maple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	shaped	shape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
15	like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	spin	spin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
23	down	down	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	like	like	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	helicopters	helicopter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	chestnut	chestnut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	's	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	spreads	spread	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
34	out	out	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
35	like	like	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
38	with	with	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
39	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	42	nummod	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	39	nmod	_	_
42	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14: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 | **drop** | present | the oak | acorns |  | little cups |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent acorn=Theme in cup=Destination |
| 2 | **shape** | present · passive |  | the maple's leaf |  |  |  | like a open hand | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 3 | **spin down** | present | oak's seeds |  |  |  |  | like helicopters | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **spread out** | present | the horse chestnut's leaf |  |  |  |  | like a hand with five fingers | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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**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:2`.

**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): R6-punct-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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