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title: A daisy is not one flower but hundreds of tiny flowers packed togeth… — Weeds and wildflowers: dandelions, nettles, dais… · tree and pragmatics
description: A daisy is not one flower but hundreds of tiny flowers packed together; its name comes from «day's eye» because it opens in the day, and it grows low so mowers miss it. Who acts: daisy, name, mowers. A sentence of the lesson «Weeds and wildflowers: dandelions, nettles, daisies, clover and plantain» 
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# Weeds and wildflowers: dandelions, nettles, daisies, clover and plantain, sentence 10

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A daisy is not one flower but hundreds of tiny flowers packed together; its name comes from «day's eye» because it opens in the day, and it grows low so mowers miss it.

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**Who acts:** daisy, name, mowers · **What happens:** not be, pack, come, open, grow, miss · **To what, where:** one flower, tiny flowers, eye, name

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Weeds and wildflowers: dandelions, nettles, daisies, clover and plantain» 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 (daisy, name, mowers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:340-weeds-and-wildflowers-dandelions-nettles-daisies-clover-and-plantain.lesson:10
# text = A daisy is not one flower but hundreds of tiny flowers packed together; its name comes from «day's eye» because it opens in the day, and it grows low so mowers miss it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 340-weeds-and-wildflowers-dandelions-nettles-daisies-clover-and-plantain.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, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	daisy	daisy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	packed	pack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	acl	_	_
13	together	together	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
20	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:compound
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct
24	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	opens	open	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:conj
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
34	low	low	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	33	advmod	_	_
35	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
36	mowers	mower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
37	miss	miss	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	advcl	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **not** **is a** | present | a daisy | one flower but hundreds of tiny flowers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pack** | participle |  | tiny flowers *not said here* |  |  |  | together *property* | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | present | daisy's name |  |  | day's eye |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from eye=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **open** | present | name |  |  |  | day |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **grow** | present | name |  |  |  |  | low *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **miss** | present | mowers | name |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 7 | **name** |  | daisy |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:340-weeds-and-wildflowers-dandelions-nettles-daisies-clover-and-plantain.lesson:10`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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