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title: Feather grass, kovyl, has seeds with long feathery tails that twist… — Ukraine's plants: sunflowers, viburnum, poppies,… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: Feather grass, long feathery tails, sharp seeds. A sentence of the lesson «Ukraine
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# Ukraine's plants: sunflowers, viburnum, poppies, lime trees and steppe grasses, sentence 17

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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.

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**Who acts:** Feather grass, long feathery tails, sharp seeds · **What happens:** have, twist, untwist, screw, stick, check · **To what, where:** seeds, seed, soil, ears, pets

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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 (Feather grass, long feathery tails, sharp seeds), 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:17
# text = 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.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	kovyl	kovyl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	feathery	feathery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	twist	twist	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
15	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:amod
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	untwist	untwist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
19	damp	damp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	ccomp	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	screwing	screw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
32	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	stick	stick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod:poss	_	_
36	'	's	PART	POS	_	35	case	_	_
37	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	so	so	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	check	check	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	33	parataxis	_	_
41	pets	pet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	_
42	after	after	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	walks	walk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **have** | present | Feather grass | seeds |  |  |  | with long feathery tails | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Patient |
| 2 | **twist** | present | long feathery tails |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **untwist** | infinitive | long feathery tails *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **screw** | gerund | Feather grass *not said here* | the seed |  | the soil |  | slowly *property* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Patient |
| 5 | **stick** | can | seed's sharp seeds |  |  | dogs's ears |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in ear=Destination |
| 6 | **check** | infinitive |  | pets |  |  | after walks |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pet=Theme |

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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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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