--- title: Gorse, broom and Himalayan balsam have pods that dry and twist on ho… — Seeds and fruit and how they travel · tree and pragmatics description: Gorse, broom and Himalayan balsam have pods that dry and twist on hot dry days until they burst and fling the seeds out, and the sandbox tree flings its seeds at around 250 km per hour. Who acts: Gorse, pods, sandbox tree. 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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 (Gorse, pods, sandbox tree), 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:11 # text = Gorse, broom and Himalayan balsam have pods that dry and twist on hot dry days until they burst and fling the seeds out, and the sandbox tree flings its seeds at around 250 km per hour. # 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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 Gorse gorse NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 broom broom NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:appos 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 5 Himalayan himalayan ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 balsam balsam NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 7 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 pods pod NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 dry dry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 twist twist VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 13 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 15 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 17 until until SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 burst burst VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 fling fling VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:obj 24 out out ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:compound:prt 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:det 28 sandbox sandbox NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:compound 29 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:compound 30 flings fling VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 31 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 33 at at ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 around around ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 250 250 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 36 nummod _ _ 36 km km NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 37 per per ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | **have** | present | Gorse and broom and Himalayan balsam | pods | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pod=Patient | | 2 | **dry** | present | pods | | | | day | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **twist** | present | pods *not said here* | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **burst** | present | Gorse | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **fling out** | present | Gorse *not said here* | the seeds | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Theme | | 6 | **fling** | present | the sandbox tree | seed's seeds | | 250 km per hour | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent seed=Theme at km=Destination | 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:11`. **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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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: [Seeds and fruit and how they travel, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/59-seeds-and-fruit-and-how-they-travel/10/) - next →: [Seeds and fruit and how they travel, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/59-seeds-and-fruit-and-how-they-travel/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/59-seeds-and-fruit-and-how-they-travel/)