--- title: Young sunflowers turn to follow the sun across the sky, then swing b… — Ukraine's plants: sunflowers, viburnum, poppies,… · tree and pragmatics description: Young sunflowers turn to follow the sun across the sky, then swing back east at night. Who acts: Young sunflowers. 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 with its dependency tree and the --- [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/2/) [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…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/377-ukraine-s-plants-sunflowers-viburnum-poppies-lime-trees-and-steppe-grasses/) / 2 # Ukraine's plants: sunflowers, viburnum, poppies, lime trees and steppe grasses, sentence 2 Young sunflowers turn to follow the sun across the sky, then swing back east at night. **Who acts:** Young sunflowers · **What happens:** turn, follow, swing back · **To what, where:** sun, sky 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 (Young sunflowers), 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:2 # text = Young sunflowers turn to follow the sun across the sky, then swing back east at night. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 sunflowers sunflower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 follow follow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 across across ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 12 then then ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 swing swing VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 14 back back ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 east east ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 16 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | present | Young sunflowers | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **follow** | to-infinitive | Young sunflowers *not said here* | the sun | | the sky | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sun=Theme across sky=Trajectory | | 3 | **swing back** | gerund | Young sunflowers *not said here* | | | | then; night | east *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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. **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:2`. **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): R6-punct-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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