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title: Most of these games prove nothing, but the plants behind them are cl… — Weeds and wildflowers: dandelions, nettles, dais… · tree and pragmatics
description: Most of these games prove nothing, but the plants behind them are clever: parachute seeds, shiny petals, stings for defence, and roots that make their own fertiliser from the air. Who acts: Most, plants, roots. A sentence of the lesson «Weeds and wildflowers: dandelions, nettles, daisies, clover and
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# Weeds and wildflowers: dandelions, nettles, daisies, clover and plantain, sentence 5

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Most of these games prove nothing, but the plants behind them are clever: parachute seeds, shiny petals, stings for defence, and roots that make their own fertiliser from the air.

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**Who acts:** Most, plants, roots · **What happens:** prove, be, make · **To what, where:** nothing, own fertiliser, air

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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 (Most, plants, roots), 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:5
# text = Most of these games prove nothing, but the plants behind them are clever: parachute seeds, shiny petals, stings for defence, and roots that make their own fertiliser from the air.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	prove	prove	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
11	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	parachute	parachute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	parataxis	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	petals	petal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	stings	sting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	defence	defence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=17:cc
27	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	fertiliser	fertiliser	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **prove** | present | Most of this games | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | the plants behind games |  |  |  |  | clever *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | present | roots | roots's own fertiliser |  | the air |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset fertiliser=Product from air=Material |

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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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×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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