--- title: Sycamore seeds have a wing that makes them spin as they fall, slowin… — Seeds and fruit and how they travel · tree and pragmatics description: Sycamore seeds have a wing that makes them spin as they fall, slowing them down; sycamore is a kind of maple, and maple seeds grow in winged pairs. Who acts: Sycamore seeds, wing, dots, sycamore. 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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 (Sycamore seeds, wing, dots, sycamore), 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:6 # text = Sycamore seeds have a wing that makes them spin as they fall, slowing them down; sycamore is a kind of maple, and maple seeds grow in winged pairs. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Sycamore sycamore 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 5 det _ _ 5 wing wing NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 spin spin VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 10 as as SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 fall fall VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 slowing slow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ _ 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 down down ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct 18 sycamore sycamore NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 maple maple NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 maple maple NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 winged winged ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 pairs pair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 32 . . 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 | Sycamore seeds | a wing | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient | | 2 | **make** | present | a wing | dots *= dot* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **spin** | infinitive | dots *= dot* *not said here* | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **fall** | present | dots *= dot* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **slow down** | gerund | dots *= dot* *not said here* | dots *= dot* | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 6 | **is a** | present | sycamore | a kind | | | | of maple | tree rules | | 7 | **grow** | present | maple seeds | | | winged pairs | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pair=Location | 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:6`. **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): R2-punct-next ×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. 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