--- title: Ukraine's plants: sunflowers, viburnum, poppies, lime trees and steppe grasses — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Ukraine's plants: sunflowers, viburnum, poppies, lime trees and steppe grasses», a lesson of the biology course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: In July a Ukrainian field turns into a yellow sea of sunflowers taller than a grown-up. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/377-ukraine-s-plants-sunflowers-viburnum-poppies-lime-trees-and-steppe-grasses/) [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/) / Ukraine's plants: sunflowers, viburnum… # Ukraine's plants: sunflowers, viburnum, poppies, lime trees and steppe grasses Lesson 377 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 19 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/377-ukraine-s-plants-sunflowers-viburnum-poppies-lime-trees-and-steppe-grasses/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/377-ukraine-s-plants-sunflowers-viburnum-poppies-lime-trees-and-steppe-grasses/0/) — In July a Ukrainian field turns into a yellow sea of sunflowers taller than a grown-up. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/377-ukraine-s-plants-sunflowers-viburnum-poppies-lime-trees-and-steppe-grasses/1/) — Each big head is not one flower but hundreds or over a thousand tiny flowers packed together, and later each becomes a seed. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/377-ukraine-s-plants-sunflowers-viburnum-poppies-lime-trees-and-steppe-grasses/2/) — Young sunflowers turn to follow the sun across the sky, then swing back east at night. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/377-ukraine-s-plants-sunflowers-viburnum-poppies-lime-trees-and-steppe-grasses/3/) — Once they bloom most stop and face east, where the morning sun warms them and bees visit more. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/377-ukraine-s-plants-sunflowers-viburnum-poppies-lime-trees-and-steppe-grasses/4/) — Some plants become symbols because people see them every day near home: kalyna with red winter berries, sung about in Oi u luzi chervona kalyna, and the red poppy with a black centre for remembering the dead of the Second World War. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/377-ukraine-s-plants-sunflowers-viburnum-poppies-lime-trees-and-steppe-grasses/5/) — Under it all lies chornozem, black earth, among the richest soils in the world, built over thousands of years by steppe grass roots rotting into the ground. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/377-ukraine-s-plants-sunflowers-viburnum-poppies-lime-trees-and-steppe-grasses/6/) — Feather grass, wild tulips and lime trees each have clever tricks to live here. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/377-ukraine-s-plants-sunflowers-viburnum-poppies-lime-trees-and-steppe-grasses/7/) — Each sunflower head is hundreds or over a thousand tiny flowers, and its seeds sit in spirals that, counted one way and the other, often give 34 and 55, numbers from a famous number pattern. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/377-ukraine-s-plants-sunflowers-viburnum-poppies-lime-trees-and-steppe-grasses/8/) — Ukraine is one of the world's biggest sunflower growers and sells more sunflower oil than any other country. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/377-ukraine-s-plants-sunflowers-viburnum-poppies-lime-trees-and-steppe-grasses/9/) — Young sunflowers follow the sun from east to west by day and swing back east at night; open flowers mostly face east, warm faster in the morning and get more bee visits, scientists found. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/377-ukraine-s-plants-sunflowers-viburnum-poppies-lime-trees-and-steppe-grasses/10/) — Sunflowers came from North America, reached Europe in the 1500s, and oil was pressed from them in the Russian Empire in the 1800s; historians report it spread partly because it was allowed during church fasts when butter was not. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/377-ukraine-s-plants-sunflowers-viburnum-poppies-lime-trees-and-steppe-grasses/11/) — Kalyna, guelder rose or viburnum, is a symbol of Ukraine; its berries are very bitter until frosts soften them, birds eat them in winter, and each berry has one flat seed. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/377-ukraine-s-plants-sunflowers-viburnum-poppies-lime-trees-and-steppe-grasses/12/) — Oi u luzi chervona kalyna is a song of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen from 1914 that became famous again around the world in 2022, and it says kalyna, Ukraine, will rise again. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/377-ukraine-s-plants-sunflowers-viburnum-poppies-lime-trees-and-steppe-grasses/13/) — Ukraine uses a red poppy with a black centre to remember the dead of the Second World War. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/377-ukraine-s-plants-sunflowers-viburnum-poppies-lime-trees-and-steppe-grasses/14/) — Poppies grow in disturbed soil, so they come up on fields and roadsides after digging, and the seed head shakes out seeds through a ring of little holes like a pepper pot. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/377-ukraine-s-plants-sunflowers-viburnum-poppies-lime-trees-and-steppe-grasses/15/) — Lime trees, lypa, bloom in early summer, bees make light lime honey from them, and lime flower tea is a traditional drink for colds. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/377-ukraine-s-plants-sunflowers-viburnum-poppies-lime-trees-and-steppe-grasses/17/) — Feather grass, kovyl, has seeds with long feathery tails that twist when dry and untwist when damp, slowly screwing the seed into the soil; its sharp seeds can stick in dogs' ears, so check pets after walks. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/377-ukraine-s-plants-sunflowers-viburnum-poppies-lime-trees-and-steppe-grasses/18/) — Ukraine's black earth, chornozem, was built over thousands of years by steppe grass roots dying and rotting into the ground, and in places it is about a metre deep. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/377-ukraine-s-plants-sunflowers-viburnum-poppies-lime-trees-and-steppe-grasses/19/) — Schrenk's tulip grows wild in southern Ukraine and is a wild relative of garden tulips; it flowers early in spring before grass grows tall and summer dries everything, then hides as a bulb. - ← previous: [The Chornobyl zone: how wild animals came back, and what is still argued](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/376-the-chornobyl-zone-how-wild-animals-came-back-and-what-is-still-argued/) - next →: [China's mountains: golden snub-nosed monkeys, takins, red-crowned cranes and giant salamanders](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/378-china-s-mountains-golden-snub-nosed-monkeys-takins-red-crowned-cranes-and-giant-salamanders/) - ↑ back to [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/)