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title: Grasses do not bother with any of that: they throw millions of tiny… — Flowers and pollination · tree and pragmatics
description: Grasses do not bother with any of that: they throw millions of tiny pollen grains into the wind, which is why so many people sneeze with hay fever in June. Who acts: Grasses, many people. A sentence of the lesson «Flowers and pollination» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depen
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# Flowers and pollination, sentence 3

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Grasses do not bother with any of that: they throw millions of tiny pollen grains into the wind, which is why so many people sneeze with hay fever in June.

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**Who acts:** Grasses, many people · **What happens:** not bother, throw, be, sneeze · **To what, where:** millions, wind

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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 (Grasses, many people), 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:3
# text = Grasses do not bother with any of that: they throw millions of tiny pollen grains into the wind, which is why so many people sneeze with hay fever in June.
# 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): no change
1	Grasses	grass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	bother	bother	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nmod	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	throw	throw	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	pollen	pollen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	grains	grain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
27	sneeze	sneeze	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	hay	hay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	fever	fever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	June	June	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **bother** | present · do-support | Grasses |  |  |  |  | with any | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **throw** | present | Grasses *= grass* | millions of tiny pollen grains |  |  |  | into the wind *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer million=Theme into wind=Result |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **sneeze** | present | many people |  |  |  | june | with hay fever | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:3`.

**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): no change. **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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