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title: Some lotus seeds found in a dry lake bed in China sprouted after abo… — Seeds and fruit and how they travel · tree and pragmatics
description: Some lotus seeds found in a dry lake bed in China sprouted after about 1300 years, protected by a very hard coat; seeds that can wait help a plant survive bad years, sprouting when the drought or cold is over. Who acts: lotus seeds, seeds, plant, drought. A sentence of the lesson «Seeds and fruit an
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# Seeds and fruit and how they travel, sentence 15

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Some lotus seeds found in a dry lake bed in China sprouted after about 1300 years, protected by a very hard coat; seeds that can wait help a plant survive bad years, sprouting when the drought or cold is over.

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**Who acts:** lotus seeds, seeds, plant, drought · **What happens:** find, sprout, protect, wait, help, survive · **To what, where:** lotus seeds, dry lake bed, plant

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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 (lotus seeds, seeds, plant, drought), 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:15
# text = Some lotus seeds found in a dry lake bed in China sprouted after about 1300 years, protected by a very hard coat; seeds that can wait help a plant survive bad years, sprouting when the drought or cold is over.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	lotus	lotus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
4	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	sprouted	sprout	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
13	after	after	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	about	about	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	1300	1300	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	protected	protect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	very	very	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
27	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl:relcl	_	_
29	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	parataxis	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	survive	survive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
33	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	sprouting	sprout	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	advcl	_	_
37	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	43	advmod	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	drought	drought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
40	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	_
42	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
43	over	over	ADV	RB	_	36	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:advmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **find** | participle |  | some lotus seeds *not said here* |  | a dry lake bed in China |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sprout** | past | some lotus seeds |  |  |  | year |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
| 3 | **protect** | participle | some lotus seeds *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by a hard coat | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **wait** | can | seeds |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **help** | infinitive | seeds | a plant |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent plant=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 6 | **survive** | infinitive | a plant *not said here* |  |  |  | year |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **sprout** | gerund | a plant *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
| 8 | **is** | present | the drought or cold |  |  |  |  | over *property* | tree rules |

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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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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