--- title: Each dandelion seed has a parachute of fine hairs that makes a ring… — Seeds and fruit and how they travel · tree and pragmatics description: Each dandelion seed has a parachute of fine hairs that makes a ring of swirling air above it, slowing its fall so the wind can carry it many kilometres. Who acts: dandelion seed, parachute, air, wind. 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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 (dandelion seed, parachute, air, wind), 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:5 # text = Each dandelion seed has a parachute of fine hairs that makes a ring of swirling air above it, slowing its fall so the wind can carry it many kilometres. # 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 1 Each each DET DT PronType=Tot 3 det _ _ 2 dandelion dandelion NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 seed seed NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 parachute parachute NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 hairs hair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 10 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 swirling swirl VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 acl _ _ 16 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 above above ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 slowing slow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj 21 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 fall fall NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 so so SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 26 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 advcl _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:obj 31 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | each dandelion seed | a parachute of fine hairs | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parachute=Patient | | 2 | **make** | present | a parachute of fine hairs | a ring of air | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ring=Product | | 3 | **swirl** | gerund | air *not said here* | | | seed | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above it=Location | | 4 | **slow** | gerund | a parachute of fine hairs *not said here* | seed's fall | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fall=Patient | | 5 | **carry** | can | the wind | seed | | | | many kilometres *obl* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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. 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