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title: Clover leaves usually have three leaflets, and four-leaf clovers are… — Weeds and wildflowers: dandelions, nettles, dais… · tree and pragmatics
description: Clover leaves usually have three leaflets, and four-leaf clovers are rare, about one in many thousands, though some people find many by looking hard. Who acts: Clover leaves, leaf clovers, people. A sentence of the lesson «Weeds and wildflowers: dandelions, nettles, daisies, clover and plantain» of 
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# Weeds and wildflowers: dandelions, nettles, daisies, clover and plantain, sentence 11

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Clover leaves usually have three leaflets, and four-leaf clovers are rare, about one in many thousands, though some people find many by looking hard.

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**Who acts:** Clover leaves, leaf clovers, people · **What happens:** have, be, find, look · **To what, where:** three leaflets, many

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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 (Clover leaves, leaf clovers, people), 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:11
# text = Clover leaves usually have three leaflets, and four-leaf clovers are rare, about one in many thousands, though some people find many by looking hard.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Clover	clover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	leaflets	leaflet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
11	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	clovers	clover	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	about	about	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
24	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
26	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	obj	_	_
27	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
28	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
29	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **have** | present | Clover leaves | three leaflets |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaflet=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | leaf clovers |  |  |  |  | rare *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **find** | present | some people | many |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Topic |
| 4 | **look** | gerund | some people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:11`.

**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): 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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