--- title: A dandelion head is about 100 to 200 tiny flowers; it opens in brigh… — Flowers and pollination · tree and pragmatics description: A dandelion head is about 100 to 200 tiny flowers; it opens in bright daylight and closes at night or in rain, protecting its pollen. Who acts: dandelion head. A sentence of the lesson «Flowers and pollination» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatic --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/58-flowers-and-pollination/15/) [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/) / [Flowers and pollination](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/58-flowers-and-pollination/) / 15 # Flowers and pollination, sentence 15 A dandelion head is about 100 to 200 tiny flowers; it opens in bright daylight and closes at night or in rain, protecting its pollen. **Who acts:** dandelion head · **What happens:** be, open, close, protect · **To what, where:** 100, bright daylight, pollen 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 (dandelion head), 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:15 # text = A dandelion head is about 100 to 200 tiny flowers; it opens in bright daylight and closes at night or in rain, protecting its pollen. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 dandelion dandelion NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 about about ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nmod _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:case 8 200 200 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 9 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 opens open VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 daylight daylight NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 closes close VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 19 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 protecting protect VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:conj 26 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 pollen pollen NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | | 100 | | | | 200 tiny flowers *nmod*; about *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **open** | present | a dandelion head | | | bright daylight | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in daylight=Location | | 3 | **close** | present | a dandelion head *not said here* | | | | night | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **protect** | gerund | a dandelion head *not said here* | head's pollen | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pollen=Beneficiary | 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:058-flowers-and-pollination.lesson:15`. **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, R7-rel-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: [Flowers and pollination, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/58-flowers-and-pollination/14/) - next →: [Flowers and pollination, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/58-flowers-and-pollination/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/58-flowers-and-pollination/)