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title: Children play with wildflowers everywhere: blowing a dandelion clock… — Weeds and wildflowers: dandelions, nettles, dais… · tree and pragmatics
description: Children play with wildflowers everywhere: blowing a dandelion clock to «tell the time», holding a buttercup under a chin to see who likes butter, firing plantain heads like little guns, and hunting for a lucky four-leaf clover. Who acts: Children. A sentence of the lesson «Weeds and wildflowers: da
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# Weeds and wildflowers: dandelions, nettles, daisies, clover and plantain, sentence 4

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Children play with wildflowers everywhere: blowing a dandelion clock to «tell the time», holding a buttercup under a chin to see who likes butter, firing plantain heads like little guns, and hunting for a lucky four-leaf clover.

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**Who acts:** Children · **What happens:** play, blow, tell, hold, see, like · **To what, where:** dandelion clock, buttercup, chin, butter, plantain heads · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Children), 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:4
# text = Children play with wildflowers everywhere: blowing a dandelion clock to «tell the time», holding a buttercup under a chin to see who likes butter, firing plantain heads like little guns, and hunting for a lucky four-leaf clover.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	play	play	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	wildflowers	wildflower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
5	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	2	advmod	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
7	blowing	blow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	dandelion	dandelion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
12	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
13	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	buttercup	buttercup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	under	under	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	chin	chin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:ccomp
26	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	likes	like	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	ccomp	_	_
28	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	firing	fire	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
31	plantain	plantain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
33	like	like	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	guns	gun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	conj	_	_
39	for	for	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
41	lucky	lucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
42	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	44	nummod	_	_
43	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	42	punct	_	_
44	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	clover	clover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **play** | present | Children |  |  |  |  | with wildflowers; everywhere *property* | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with wildflower=Theme |
| 2 | **blow** | gerund | Children *not said here* | a dandelion clock |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent clock=Patient |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Children *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **hold** | gerund | Children *not said here* | a buttercup |  | a chin |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent buttercup=Theme under chin=Location |
| 5 | **see** | to-infinitive | Children *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **like** | present |  | butter |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot butter=Theme |
| 7 | **fire** | gerund | Children *not said here* | plantain heads |  |  |  | like little guns | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme |
| 8 | **hunt** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for a lucky leaf clover | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for clover=Theme |

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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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**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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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