--- title: Violet seeds have a small fatty bit that ants love; ants carry the s… — Seeds and fruit and how they travel · tree and pragmatics description: Violet seeds have a small fatty bit that ants love; ants carry the seed home, eat the fatty bit and throw the seed onto their rich rubbish pile, where it grows. Who acts: Violet seeds, ants, seed. 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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 (Violet seeds, ants, 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:16 # text = Violet seeds have a small fatty bit that ants love; ants carry the seed home, eat the fatty bit and throw the seed onto their rich rubbish pile, where it grows. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Violet violet NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 fatty fatty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 7 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 8 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 obj _ _ 9 ants ant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 love love VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 12 ants ant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 seed seed NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 home home ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 fatty fatty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 throw throw VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 seed seed NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 onto onto ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 27 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 28 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 29 rubbish rubbish NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 pile pile NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 34 advmod _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Violet seeds | a small fatty bit | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Patient | | 2 | **love** | present | ants | a small fatty bit | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | | 3 | **carry** | present | ants | the seed | | | | home *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Theme | | 4 | **eat** | present | ants *not said here* | the fatty bit | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Patient | | 5 | **throw** | present | ants *not said here* | the seed | | ants's rich rubbish pile | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent seed=Theme onto pile=Destination | | 6 | **grow** | present | seed | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:16`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×3, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Seeds and fruit and how they travel, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/59-seeds-and-fruit-and-how-they-travel/15/) - next →: [Seeds and fruit and how they travel, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/59-seeds-and-fruit-and-how-they-travel/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/59-seeds-and-fruit-and-how-they-travel/)