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title: Poppies grow in disturbed soil, so they come up on fields and roadsi… — Ukraine's plants: sunflowers, viburnum, poppies,… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: Poppies, soils, seed head. A sentence of the lesson «Ukraine's plants: sunflowers, viburnum, poppies, lime trees and s
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# Ukraine's plants: sunflowers, viburnum, poppies, lime trees and steppe grasses, sentence 14

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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.

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**Who acts:** Poppies, soils, seed head · **What happens:** grow, disturb, come up, dig, shake out · **To what, where:** disturbed soil, fields, seeds, ring

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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 (Poppies, soils, seed head), 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:14
# text = 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.
# 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	Poppies	poppy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	disturbed	disturb	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:advcl
10	up	up	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=12:cc
14	roadsides	roadside	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	digging	dig	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	advcl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=9:cc
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	shakes	shake	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	through	through	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
31	like	like	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	pepper	pepper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present | Poppies |  |  | disturbed soil |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in soil=Location |
| 2 | **disturb** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **come up** | present | soils *= soil* |  |  | fields and roadsides |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on field=Location |
| 4 | **dig** | gerund | soils *= soil* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **shake out** | present | the seed head | seeds |  | a ring of little holes like a pepper pot |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent seed=Theme through ring=Trajectory |

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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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**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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