--- title: A buttercup held under the chin makes a yellow glow because a shiny… — Weeds and wildflowers: dandelions, nettles, dais… · tree and pragmatics description: A buttercup held under the chin makes a yellow glow because a shiny layer in its petals reflects light; everyone's chin glows, so it proves nothing about liking butter. Who acts: buttercup, shiny layer, chin. 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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 (buttercup, shiny layer, chin), 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:15 # text = A buttercup held under the chin makes a yellow glow because a shiny layer in its petals reflects light; everyone's chin glows, so it proves nothing about liking butter. # 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 ×3 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 buttercup buttercup NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 held hold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 4 under under ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 chin chin NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 glow glow NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 because because SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 shiny shiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 layer layer NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 petals petal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 18 reflects reflect VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 19 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct 21 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 's 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 chin chin NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 glows glow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 so so ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 proves prove VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 29 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 28 obj _ _ 30 about about SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 31 liking like VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 29 acl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:nmod 32 butter butter NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** | participle | | a buttercup *not said here* | | the chin | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under chin=Location | | 2 | **make** | present | a buttercup | a yellow glow | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset glow=Product | | 3 | **reflect** | present | a shiny layer in layer's petals | light | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **glow** | present | everyone's chin | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **prove** | present | chin | nothing | | | | | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme | | 6 | **like** | gerund | | butter | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot butter=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:15`. **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 ×3. **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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