--- title: Some hitch a ride: burdock burrs hook onto your dog's fur after a wa… — Seeds and fruit and how they travel · tree and pragmatics description: Some hitch a ride: burdock burrs hook onto your dog's fur after a walk, birds eat berries and drop the seeds far away, and squirrels bury acorns and forget half of them, planting new oaks by accident. Who acts: Some, burdock burrs, birds, squirrels. 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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, burdock burrs, birds, squirrels), 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:2 # text = Some hitch a ride: burdock burrs hook onto your dog's fur after a walk, birds eat berries and drop the seeds far away, and squirrels bury acorns and forget half of them, planting new oaks by accident. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:det 2 hitch hitch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 parataxis _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 ride ride NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 6 burdock burdock NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 burrs burr NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 hook hook VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 9 onto onto ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 's 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 14 after after ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 walk walk NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 18 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 20 berries berry NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 drop drop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 26 advmod _ _ 26 away away ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 squirrels squirrel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 bury bury VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 31 acorns acorn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 forget forget VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 34 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 33 obj _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nmod _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 planting plant VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 33 advcl _ _ 39 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 oaks oak NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obj _ _ 41 by by ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 accident accident NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19: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 | **hitch** | present | Some | a ride | | | | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ride=Patient | | 2 | **hook** | present | burdock burrs | | | your dog's fur | after a walk | | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto fur=Destination | | 3 | **eat** | present | birds | berries | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Patient | | 4 | **drop** | present | birds *not said here* | the seeds | | | | away *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Theme | | 5 | **bury** | present | squirrels | acorns | | | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent acorn=Theme | | 6 | **forget** | present | squirrels *not said here* | half of squirrels | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **plant** | gerund | squirrels *not said here* | new oaks | | | | by accident | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent oak=Theme by accident=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:2`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/59-seeds-and-fruit-and-how-they-travel/1/) - next →: [Seeds and fruit and how they travel, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/59-seeds-and-fruit-and-how-they-travel/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/59-seeds-and-fruit-and-how-they-travel/)