--- title: Some go by sea, like the floating coconut, and some simply explode:… — Seeds and fruit and how they travel · tree and pragmatics description: Some go by sea, like the floating coconut, and some simply explode: on a hot summer day on the heath you can hear gorse pods pop and fling their seeds out. Who acts: Some, you. A sentence of the lesson «Seeds and fruit and how they travel» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depe --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/59-seeds-and-fruit-and-how-they-travel/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Seeds and fruit and how they travel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/59-seeds-and-fruit-and-how-they-travel/) / 3 # Seeds and fruit and how they travel, sentence 3 Some go by sea, like the floating coconut, and some simply explode: on a hot summer day on the heath you can hear gorse pods pop and fling their seeds out. **Who acts:** Some, you · **What happens:** go, float, explode, hear · **To what, where:** pods pop 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 (Some, you), 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:3 # text = Some go by sea, like the floating coconut, and some simply explode: on a hot summer day on the heath you can hear gorse pods pop and fling their seeds out. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 nsubj _ _ 2 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 by by ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 like like ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 floating float VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 9 coconut coconut NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 14 nsubj _ _ 13 simply simply ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 explode explode VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 15 : : PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 18 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 19 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 21 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 heath heath NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=14:conj 27 gorse gorse NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 pods pod NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 compound _ _ 29 pop pop NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 fling fling NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 32 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:obj 34 out out ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **go** | present | Some | | | | | by sea; like the floating coconut | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by sea=Location | | 2 | **float** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **explode** | present | some | | | | | simply *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **hear** | can | you | pods pop and fling | | | day | out *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer pop=Stimulus | 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:3`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/59-seeds-and-fruit-and-how-they-travel/2/) - next →: [Seeds and fruit and how they travel, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/59-seeds-and-fruit-and-how-they-travel/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/59-seeds-and-fruit-and-how-they-travel/)