--- title: A coconut is a seed in a fibrous, air-filled husk that floats and ke… — Seeds and fruit and how they travel · tree and pragmatics description: A coconut is a seed in a fibrous, air-filled husk that floats and keeps sea water out; most other seeds would sink and be killed by the salt, but a coconut can float for months and travel thousands of kilometres across the sea and still sprout. 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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 (coconut, fibrous filled husk, most other seeds, salt), 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:7 # text = A coconut is a seed in a fibrous, air-filled husk that floats and keeps sea water out; most other seeds would sink and be killed by the salt, but a coconut can float for months and travel thousands of kilometres across the sea and still sprout. # 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): R5-strong ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 coconut coconut NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 seed seed NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 8 fibrous fibrous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 10 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ _ 12 filled fill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 amod _ _ 13 husk husk NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 14 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 floats float VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 18 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 out out ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 22 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 24 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup 23 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 25 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 sink sink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 killed kill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 conj _ _ 30 by by ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 salt salt NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 34 but but CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 coconut coconut NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 37 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 float float VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 conj _ _ 39 for for ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obl _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 travel travel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 conj _ _ 43 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 obj _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 nmod _ _ 46 across across ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:obl 49 and and CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 50 still still ADV RB _ 51 advmod _ _ 51 sprout sprout VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 conj _ _ 52 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a coconut | a seed | | a fibrous filled husk | | | tree rules | | 2 | **fill** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **float** | present | a fibrous filled husk | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **keep out** | present | a fibrous filled husk *not said here* | sea water | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | | 5 | **sink** | would | most other seeds | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **kill** | infinitive · passive | the salt | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **float** | can | a coconut | | | | month | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **travel** | infinitive | a coconut *not said here* | thousands of kilometres | | the sea | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thousand=Trajectory | | 9 | **sprout** | infinitive | a coconut *not said here* | | | | still | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | 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:7`. **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): R5-strong ×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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/59-seeds-and-fruit-and-how-they-travel/6/) - next →: [Seeds and fruit and how they travel, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/59-seeds-and-fruit-and-how-they-travel/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/59-seeds-and-fruit-and-how-they-travel/)