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title: A sunflower head is hundreds or thousands of tiny flowers, each maki… — Flowers and pollination · tree and pragmatics
description: A sunflower head is hundreds or thousands of tiny flowers, each making one seed, arranged in spirals whose numbers are often 34, 55 or 89. Who acts: sunflower head, each, hundreds. A sentence of the lesson «Flowers and pollination» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency t
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# Flowers and pollination, sentence 12

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A sunflower head is hundreds or thousands of tiny flowers, each making one seed, arranged in spirals whose numbers are often 34, 55 or 89.

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**Who acts:** sunflower head, each, hundreds · **What happens:** be, make, arrange · **To what, where:** hundreds, one seed, spirals, 34

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Flowers and pollination» 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, each, hundreds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:058-flowers-and-pollination.lesson:12
# text = A sunflower head is hundreds or thousands of tiny flowers, each making one seed, arranged in spirals whose numbers are often 34, 55 or 89.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 058-flowers-and-pollination.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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	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	24	nsubj	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	nsubj	_	_
13	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
17	arranged	arrange	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	spirals	spiral	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
20	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	often	often	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	34	34	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	55	55	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	conj	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	89	89	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	conj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24: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 | a sunflower head | hundreds or thousands |  |  |  | of tiny flowers | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | gerund |  | one seed |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset seed=Product |
| 3 | **arrange** | past | each | hundreds or thousands *not said here* |  | spirals  spirals  spirals's numbers's numbers |  |  | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hundred=Theme in spiral=Destination |
| 4 | **is a** | present | hundreds or thousands | 34 |  |  |  | often *property* | tree rules |

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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:058-flowers-and-pollination.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 ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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