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title: Oak leaves have wavy edges and acorns sit in little cups; an oak can… — Park trees: telling oaks, maples, chestnuts, bir… · tree and pragmatics
description: Oak leaves have wavy edges and acorns sit in little cups; an oak can live for many hundreds of years, and one big oak can be home to hundreds of kinds of insects. Who acts: Oak leaves, acorns, oak, one big oak. A sentence of the lesson «Park trees: telling oaks, maples, chestnuts, birches, limes and
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# Park trees: telling oaks, maples, chestnuts, birches, limes and willows apart, sentence 7

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Oak leaves have wavy edges and acorns sit in little cups; an oak can live for many hundreds of years, and one big oak can be home to hundreds of kinds of insects.

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**Who acts:** Oak leaves, acorns, oak, one big oak · **What happens:** have, sit, live, be · **To what, where:** wavy edges, little cups

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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 leaves, acorns, oak, one big oak), 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:7
# text = Oak leaves have wavy edges and acorns sit in little cups; an oak can live for many hundreds of years, and one big oak can be home to hundreds of kinds of insects.
# 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 ×1
1	Oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	wavy	wavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	edges	edge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	acorns	acorn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	sit	sit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	cups	cup	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
25	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
27	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	cop	_	_
29	home	home	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	insects	insect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **have** | present | Oak leaves | wavy edges |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent edge=Patient |
| 2 | **sit** | present | acorns |  |  | little cups |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cup=Location |
| 3 | **live** | can | a oak |  |  |  |  | for many hundreds of years | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | can | one big oak |  |  |  |  | to hundreds; of kinds of insects; home *property* | tree rules |

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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 ×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.

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

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