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title: Park a car under a lime tree in July and come back to a windscreen c… — Park trees: telling oaks, maples, chestnuts, bir… · tree and pragmatics
description: Park a car under a lime tree in July and come back to a windscreen covered in sticky drops: the aphids up in the leaves have been dribbling sweet honeydew all afternoon. Who acts: you, aphids. A sentence of the lesson «Park trees: telling oaks, maples, chestnuts, birches, limes and willows apart» of
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# Park trees: telling oaks, maples, chestnuts, birches, limes and willows apart, sentence 3

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Park a car under a lime tree in July and come back to a windscreen covered in sticky drops: the aphids up in the leaves have been dribbling sweet honeydew all afternoon.

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**Who acts:** you, aphids · **What happens:** park, come back, cover, dribble · **To what, where:** car, lime tree, windscreen, sweet honeydew

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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 (you, aphids), 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:3
# text = Park a car under a lime tree in July and come back to a windscreen covered in sticky drops: the aphids up in the leaves have been dribbling sweet honeydew all afternoon.
# 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): R5-strong ×3
1	Park	park	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	under	under	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	lime	lime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nmod
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	July	July	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
12	back	back	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	windscreen	windscreen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obl
16	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	sticky	sticky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	aphids	aphid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
23	up	up	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
27	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	aux	_	_
29	dribbling	dribble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	parataxis	_	_
30	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	honeydew	honeydew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	33	det	_	_
33	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl:unmarked	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **park** | imperative | you *not said here* | a car |  | a lime tree | july |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent car=Theme under tree=Destination |
| 2 | **come back** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | a windscreen |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to windscreen=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **cover** | participle |  | a windscreen *not said here* |  |  |  | in sticky drops | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in drop=Theme |
| 4 | **dribble** | present · perfect · progressive | the aphids in the leaves | sweet honeydew |  |  | afternoon |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent honeydew=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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**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): R5-strong ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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