--- title: Maple leaves are shaped like a hand, usually with five points, maple… — Park trees: telling oaks, maples, chestnuts, bir… · tree and pragmatics description: Maple leaves are shaped like a hand, usually with five points, maple seeds spin like helicopters as they fall, and the sycamore in Britain is a kind of maple. Who acts: maple seeds, leaves, sycamore. 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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 (maple seeds, leaves, sycamore), 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:8 # text = Maple leaves are shaped like a hand, usually with five points, maple seeds spin like helicopters as they fall, and the sycamore in Britain is a kind of maple. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Maple maple NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 shaped shape VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 like like ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 usually usually ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 points point NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 maple maple NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 spin spin VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 17 like like ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 helicopters helicopter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:nmod 19 as as SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 fall fall VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:advcl 22 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 sycamore sycamore NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 maple maple NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 33 . . 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 | **shape** | present · passive | | Maple leaves | | | | like a hand | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 2 | **spin** | present | maple seeds | | | | | like helicopters | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **fall** | present | leaves *= leaf* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | present | the sycamore in Britain | a kind | | | | of maple | 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:8`. **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, R7-rel-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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