--- title: Some go by air: blow a dandelion clock and each seed floats off on a… — Seeds and fruit and how they travel · tree and pragmatics description: Some go by air: blow a dandelion clock and each seed floats off on a tiny parachute, and sycamore helicopters spin down slowly so the wind can carry them away. Who acts: Some, seed, sycamore helicopters, wind. 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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 (Some, seed, sycamore helicopters, wind), 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:1 # text = Some go by air: blow a dandelion clock and each seed floats off on a tiny parachute, and sycamore helicopters spin down slowly so the wind can carry them away. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 nsubj _ _ 2 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 3 by by ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 6 blow blow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 dandelion dandelion NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 clock clock NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 12 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:det 12 seed seed NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:compound 13 floats float VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 14 off off ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 parachute parachute NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 sycamore sycamore NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 helicopters helicopter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 spin spin VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 24 down down ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:advmod 25 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 26 so so SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 29 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 advcl _ _ 31 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 away away ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | present | Some | | | | | by air | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by air=Location | | 2 | **blow** | infinitive | | a dandelion clock | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent clock=Patient | | 3 | **float off** | present | each seed | | | a tiny parachute | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on parachute=Trajectory | | 4 | **spin down** | present | sycamore helicopters | | | | | down, slowly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **carry away** | can | the wind | helicopters *= helicopter* | | | | away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:059-seeds-and-fruit-and-how-they-travel.lesson:1`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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. 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