--- title: Desert seeds can wait in the soil for years and, after heavy rain, s… — The desert: living with little water · tree and pragmatics description: Desert seeds can wait in the soil for years and, after heavy rain, sprout, flower and seed within a few weeks, sometimes as a superbloom even in the Atacama. Who acts: Desert seeds. A sentence of the lesson «The desert: living with little water» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with it --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/5-the-desert/12/) [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/) / [The desert: living with little water](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/5-the-desert/) / 12 # The desert: living with little water, sentence 12 Desert seeds can wait in the soil for years and, after heavy rain, sprout, flower and seed within a few weeks, sometimes as a superbloom even in the Atacama. **Who acts:** Desert seeds · **What happens:** wait, sprout, flower · **To what, where:** soil This is a sentence of the lesson «The desert: living with little water» 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 (Desert seeds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:005-the-desert.lesson:12 # text = Desert seeds can wait in the soil for years and, after heavy rain, sprout, flower and seed within a few weeks, sometimes as a superbloom even in the Atacama. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 005-the-desert.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Desert desert NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 after after ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 sprout sprout VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 18 flower flower VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 seed seed NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 21 within within ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 29 advmod _ _ 27 as as ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 superbloom superbloom NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 30 even even ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 Atacama Atacama PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:appos 34 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** | can | Desert seeds | | | the soil | after heavy rain; year | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in soil=Location | | 2 | **sprout** | infinitive | Desert seeds *not said here* | | | | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | | 3 | **flower** | infinitive | Desert seeds *not said here* | | | | | | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:005-the-desert.lesson:12`. **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 ×2, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The desert: living with little water, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/5-the-desert/10/) - next →: [The desert: living with little water, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/5-the-desert/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/5-the-desert/)