--- title: Ribwort plantain stems can be looped to flick their heads like littl… — Weeds and wildflowers: dandelions, nettles, dais… · tree and pragmatics description: Ribwort plantain stems can be looped to flick their heads like little guns, and in Ukraine people put plantain leaves on cuts, but a cut is best cleaned with water and covered with a plaster. Who acts: people. 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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 (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:13 # text = Ribwort plantain stems can be looped to flick their heads like little guns, and in Ukraine people put plantain leaves on cuts, but a cut is best cleaned with water and covered with a plaster. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Ribwort ribwort NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 plantain plantain NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 stems stem NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 looped loop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 flick flick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:xcomp 9 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 like like ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 guns gun NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=6:punct 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 Ukraine Ukraine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 18 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 put put VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 20 plantain plantain NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 cuts cut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 25 but but CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 cut cut NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux:pass _ _ 29 best well ADV RBS Degree=Sup 30 advmod _ _ 30 cleaned clean VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:advcl 31 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 conj _ _ 35 with with ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 plaster plaster NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **loop** | can · passive | | plantain stems | | | | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **flick** | to-infinitive | | stems's heads | | | | like little guns | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | | 3 | **put** | present | people | plantain leaves | | Ukraine | | on cuts | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme on cut=Destination | | 4 | **clean** | present · passive | | a cut | | | | with water; well *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with water=Instrument | | 5 | **cover** | participle | | | | | | with a plaster | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with plaster=Theme | 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:340-weeds-and-wildflowers-dandelions-nettles-daisies-clover-and-plantain.lesson:13`. **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): R2-punct-next ×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. 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