--- title: Each dandelion seed hangs from a tiny parachute, a dandelion clock h… — Weeds and wildflowers: dandelions, nettles, dais… · tree and pragmatics description: Each dandelion seed hangs from a tiny parachute, a dandelion clock holds about 150 to 200 seeds, and blowing it does not tell the time. Who acts: dandelion seed, dandelion clock. A sentence of the lesson «Weeds and wildflowers: dandelions, nettles, daisies, clover and plantain» of the biology course --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/340-weeds-and-wildflowers-dandelions-nettles-daisies-clover-and-plantain/6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Weeds and wildflowers: dandelions, net…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/340-weeds-and-wildflowers-dandelions-nettles-daisies-clover-and-plantain/) / 6 # Weeds and wildflowers: dandelions, nettles, daisies, clover and plantain, sentence 6 Each dandelion seed hangs from a tiny parachute, a dandelion clock holds about 150 to 200 seeds, and blowing it does not tell the time. **Who acts:** dandelion seed, dandelion clock · **What happens:** hang, hold, blow, not tell · **To what, where:** tiny parachute, 150 seeds, clock · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (dandelion seed, dandelion clock), 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:6 # text = Each dandelion seed hangs from a tiny parachute, a dandelion clock holds about 150 to 200 seeds, and blowing it does not tell the time. # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Each each DET DT PronType=Tot 3 det _ _ 2 dandelion dandelion NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 seed seed NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 hangs hang VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 parachute parachute NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:nmod 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 dandelion dandelion NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 clock clock NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 holds hold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 14 about about ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 150 150 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 200 200 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 nmod _ _ 18 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 blowing blow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 parataxis _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:nsubj 23 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 advcl _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hang** | present | each dandelion seed | | | a tiny parachute | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **hold** | present | a dandelion clock | 150 seeds | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Theme | | 3 | **blow** | gerund | | clock | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 4 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | | | | | time | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:6`. **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 ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Weeds and wildflowers: dandelions, net…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/340-weeds-and-wildflowers-dandelions-nettles-daisies-clover-and-plantain/5/) - next →: [Weeds and wildflowers: dandelions, net…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/340-weeds-and-wildflowers-dandelions-nettles-daisies-clover-and-plantain/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/340-weeds-and-wildflowers-dandelions-nettles-daisies-clover-and-plantain/)