--- title: A seed is a baby plant packed with a lunchbox, and the worst place f… — Seeds and fruit and how they travel · tree and pragmatics description: A seed is a baby plant packed with a lunchbox, and the worst place for it to land is right under its parent, where it would fight for light, water and space, so plants have invented every kind of transport. Who acts: seed, place, worst place, plants. 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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 (seed, place, worst place, plants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:059-seeds-and-fruit-and-how-they-travel.lesson:0 # text = A seed is a baby plant packed with a lunchbox, and the worst place for it to land is right under its parent, where it would fight for light, water and space, so plants have invented every kind of transport. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 059-seeds-and-fruit-and-how-they-travel.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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 seed seed NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 packed pack VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 lunchbox lunchbox NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 worst bad ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 15 amod _ _ 15 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 16 for for SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 land land VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 acl _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 22 under under ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 29 advmod _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 fight fight VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 acl:relcl _ _ 30 for for ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 so so ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 38 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj _ _ 39 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 invented invent VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 6 parataxis _ _ 41 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 42 det _ _ 42 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 transport transport NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | a seed | a baby plant | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **pack** | participle | | a baby plant *not said here* | | | | with a lunchbox | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with lunchbox=Theme | | 3 | **land** | to-infinitive | place | | | | | | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | the worst place | | | | | under place's parent; right *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **fight** | would | seed | | | | | for light and water and space | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **invent** | present · perfect | plants | every kind of transport | | | | | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Result | 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:059-seeds-and-fruit-and-how-they-travel.lesson:0`. **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/). - ← previous: [Flowers and pollination, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/58-flowers-and-pollination/17/) - next →: [Seeds and fruit and how they travel, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/59-seeds-and-fruit-and-how-they-travel/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/59-seeds-and-fruit-and-how-they-travel/)