--- title: The name dandelion comes from French words meaning «lion's tooth», b… — Weeds and wildflowers: dandelions, nettles, dais… · tree and pragmatics description: The name dandelion comes from French words meaning «lion's tooth», because the leaves have jagged teeth, and dandelion flowers close at night and in rain. Who acts: name dandelion, French words, leaves, dandelion flowers. 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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 (name dandelion, French words, leaves, dandelion flowers), 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:7 # text = The name dandelion comes from French words meaning «lion's tooth», because the leaves have jagged teeth, and dandelion flowers close at night and in rain. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 dandelion dandelion NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 8 meaning mean VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 acl _ _ 9 « « PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 10 lion lion NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 's 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 tooth tooth NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 13 » » PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 because because SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 19 jagged jagged ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 dandelion dandelion NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 close close VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 26 at at ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **come** | present | the name dandelion | | | French words | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from word=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **mean** | gerund | French words *not said here* | lion's tooth | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Topic | | 3 | **have** | present | the leaves | jagged teeth | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient | | 4 | **close** | present | dandelion flowers | | | | night | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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:7`. **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): R6-punct-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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