--- title: Young sunflowers follow the sun from east to west by day and swing b… — Ukraine's plants: sunflowers, viburnum, poppies,… · tree and pragmatics description: Young sunflowers follow the sun from east to west by day and swing back east at night; open flowers mostly face east, warm faster in the morning and get more bee visits, scientists found. Who acts: Young sunflowers, open flowers, scientists. 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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, open flowers, scientists), 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:9 # text = Young sunflowers follow the sun from east to west by day and swing back east at night; open flowers mostly face east, warm faster in the morning and get more bee visits, scientists found. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 sunflowers sunflower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 follow follow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 east east NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 west west ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 10 by by ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 swing swing VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 back back ADV RB _ 15 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 , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 21 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 face face VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 23 east east NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 warm warm VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 26 faster fast ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 25 advmod _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 32 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 34 amod _ _ 33 bee bee NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 visits visit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 37 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 37 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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 | **follow** | present | Young sunflowers | the sun | | east | day | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sun=Theme from east=Trajectory | | 2 | **swing back** | present | Young sunflowers *not said here* | | | | night | east *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **face** | present | open flowers | east | | | | mostly *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme east=Destination | | 4 | **warm** | infinitive | open flowers *not said here* | | | | morning | fast *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **get** | infinitive | open flowers *not said here* | more bee visits | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer visit=Stimulus | | 6 | **find** | past | scientists | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | 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:9`. **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, R8-pos-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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