--- title: A weed is just a plant growing where people do not want it; many wee… — Weeds and wildflowers: dandelions, nettles, dais… · tree and pragmatics description: A weed is just a plant growing where people do not want it; many weeds feed bees and other insects, and dandelions are among the first food for bees in spring. Who acts: weed, plant, people, many weeds. 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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 (weed, plant, people, many weeds), 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:14 # text = A weed is just a plant growing where people do not want it; many weeds feed bees and other insects, and dandelions are among the first food for bees in spring. # 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 ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 weed weed NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 just just ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 growing grow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 acl _ _ 8 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 12 advmod _ _ 9 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 10 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:ccomp 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 weeds weed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 feed feed VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 18 bees bee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 24 dandelions dandelion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 25 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 26 among among ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 29 amod _ _ 29 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 30 for for ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 bees bee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nmod _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 34 . . 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 | **is a** | present | a weed | a plant and the first food | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **grow** | gerund | a plant and the first food *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **not** **want** | present · do-support | people | weed | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | | 4 | **feed** | present | many weeds | | bees and other insects | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bee=Recipient | | 5 | **is** | present | dandelions | | | | | among the first food; for bees in spring | 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:340-weeds-and-wildflowers-dandelions-nettles-daisies-clover-and-plantain.lesson:14`. **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 ×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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