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title: Each sunflower head is hundreds or over a thousand tiny flowers, and… — Ukraine's plants: sunflowers, viburnum, poppies,… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: sunflower head, seeds, spirals. A sentence of the lesson «Ukraine's plants: sunflowers, viburnum, p
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# Ukraine's plants: sunflowers, viburnum, poppies, lime trees and steppe grasses, sentence 7

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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.

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**Who acts:** sunflower head, seeds, spirals · **What happens:** be, sit, count, give · **To what, where:** hundreds, spirals, one way, 34

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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 (sunflower head, seeds, spirals), 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:7
# text = 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.
# 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
2	sunflower	sunflower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
7	over	over	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:det
9	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
10	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	sit	sit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	spirals	spiral	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	counted	count	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	advcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
28	often	often	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
30	34	34	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	obj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	55	55	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	conj	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct
34	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:appos
35	from	from	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
37	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
38	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	pattern	pattern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | each sunflower head | hundreds or thousand tiny flowers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sit** | present | head's seeds |  |  | spirals |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in spiral=Location |
| 3 | **count** | participle | spirals *not said here* | one way |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **give** | present | spirals | 34 |  |  |  | often *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent 34=Recipient number=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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**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:7`.

**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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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