---
title: The seeds in a sunflower head sit in two sets of spirals turning opp… — Nuts, beans, seeds and spices · tree and pragmatics
description: The seeds in a sunflower head sit in two sets of spirals turning opposite ways, often 34 and 55, numbers from a pattern where each is the sum of the two before: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55. Who acts: seeds, spirals, each. A sentence of the lesson «Nuts, beans, seeds and spices» of the biology c
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices/16/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [Nuts, beans, seeds and spices](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices/) / 16

# Nuts, beans, seeds and spices, sentence 16

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The seeds in a sunflower head sit in two sets of spirals turning opposite ways, often 34 and 55, numbers from a pattern where each is the sum of the two before: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** seeds, spirals, each · **What happens:** sit, turn, be · **To what, where:** two sets, opposite ways, sum

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the lesson «Nuts, beans, seeds and spices» 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 (seeds, spirals, each), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices.lesson:16
# text = The seeds in a sunflower head sit in two sets of spirals turning opposite ways, often 34 and 55, numbers from a pattern where each is the sum of the two before: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices.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 ×8, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	sunflower	sunflower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obl
7	sit	sit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	sets	set	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	spirals	spiral	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	opposite	opposite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	often	often	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	34	34	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	55	55	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	pattern	pattern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	30	advmod	_	_
27	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Tot
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	sum	sum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	acl:relcl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nmod	_	_
34	before	before	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
35	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=34:punct
36	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nmod	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=36:punct
38	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	40	compound	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=38:punct
40	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	36	flat	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	36	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:appos
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=42:punct
44	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	42	flat	_	_
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=42:punct
46	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	42	nmod	_	_
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=42:punct
48	13	13	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	42	flat	_	_
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=42:punct
50	21	21	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	42	nmod:unmarked	_	_
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
52	34	34	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	42	nmod:unmarked	_	_
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=42:punct
54	55	55	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	42	nmod:unmarked	_	_
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .note -->
No stored speech act for this sentence.

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | present | the seeds in a sunflower head |  |  | two sets of spirals |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in set=Location |
| 2 | **turn** | gerund | spirals *not said here* | opposite ways and numbers from a pattern |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent way=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | each | the sum |  |  |  | of the two; 1 *nmod* | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices.lesson:16`.

**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 ×8, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Nuts, beans, seeds and spices, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices/15/)
- next →: [Nuts, beans, seeds and spices, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices/17/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/348-nuts-beans-seeds-and-spices/)

