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title: Kalyna, guelder rose or viburnum, is a symbol of Ukraine; its berrie… — Ukraine's plants: sunflowers, viburnum, poppies,… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: Kalyna, berries, frosts, birds. A sentence of the lesson «Ukraine's plants: sunflowers, viburnum, poppies, lime trees 
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# Ukraine's plants: sunflowers, viburnum, poppies, lime trees and steppe grasses, sentence 11

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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.

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**Who acts:** Kalyna, berries, frosts, birds, berry · **What happens:** be, soften, eat, have · **To what, where:** symbol, berries, one flat seed

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Ukraine's plants: sunflowers, viburnum, poppies, lime trees and steppe grasses» 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 (Kalyna, berries, frosts, birds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:377-ukraine-s-plants-sunflowers-viburnum-poppies-lime-trees-and-steppe-grasses.lesson:11
# text = 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.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 377-ukraine-s-plants-sunflowers-viburnum-poppies-lime-trees-and-steppe-grasses.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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Kalyna	Kalyna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	guelder	guelder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:appos
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc
6	viburnum	viburnum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	symbol	symbol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	very	very	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	_
19	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	frosts	frost	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	soften	soften	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=21:cc
31	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	det	_	_
32	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
34	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	nummod	_	_
35	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Kalyna and guelder rose or viburnum | a symbol |  |  |  | of Ukraine | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | viburnum's berries |  |  |  |  | bitter *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **soften** | present | frosts | berries *= berry* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 4 | **eat** | present | birds | berries *= berry* |  |  | winter |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 5 | **have** | present | each berry | one flat seed |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Patient |

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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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**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:377-ukraine-s-plants-sunflowers-viburnum-poppies-lime-trees-and-steppe-grasses.lesson:11`.

**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, 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.

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