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title: The Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway stores over a million seed… — Seeds and fruit and how they travel · tree and pragmatics
description: The Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway stores over a million seed samples deep in a frozen mountain, as a back-up if crops are lost; cold and dryness slow a seed right down, so it stays alive for a very long time. Who acts: Svalbard Global Seed Vault, cold, seed. A sentence of the lesson «Seeds an
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# Seeds and fruit and how they travel, sentence 14

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The Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway stores over a million seed samples deep in a frozen mountain, as a back-up if crops are lost; cold and dryness slow a seed right down, so it stays alive for a very long time.

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**Who acts:** Svalbard Global Seed Vault, cold, seed · **What happens:** store, freeze, lose, slow, stay · **To what, where:** million seed samples, crops, seed

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Seeds and fruit and how they travel» 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 (Svalbard Global Seed Vault, cold, seed), 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:14
# text = The Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway stores over a million seed samples deep in a frozen mountain, as a back-up if crops are lost; cold and dryness slow a seed right down, so it stays alive for a very long time.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	Svalbard	Svalbard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
3	Global	Global	PROPN	NNP	_	5	compound	_	_
4	Seed	seed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
5	Vault	vault	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Norway	Norway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	stores	store	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	over	over	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:det
11	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
12	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	samples	sample	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
14	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	frozen	freeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
18	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	_
24	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
25	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	crops	crop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	advcl	_	_
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=8:punct
30	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	nsubj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	dryness	dryness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
33	slow	slow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	right	right	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	down	down	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	so	so	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
42	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	xcomp	_	_
43	for	for	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
45	very	very	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
46	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **store** | present | the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway | million seed samples |  |  |  | as a back up | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sample=Theme |
| 2 | **freeze** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **lose** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive |  | crops |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 4 | **slow** | present | cold and dryness | a seed |  |  |  | down *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent seed=Patient |
| 5 | **stay** | present | seed |  |  |  | time | alive *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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/).

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