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title: Birds eat berries, and the seeds pass through unharmed and come out… — Seeds and fruit and how they travel · tree and pragmatics
description: Birds eat berries, and the seeds pass through unharmed and come out in their droppings far away; some berries are poisonous to people, so never eat wild berries you cannot name. Who acts: Birds, seeds, berries, you. A sentence of the lesson «Seeds and fruit and how they travel» of the biology course
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# Seeds and fruit and how they travel, sentence 8

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Birds eat berries, and the seeds pass through unharmed and come out in their droppings far away; some berries are poisonous to people, so never eat wild berries you cannot name.

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**Who acts:** Birds, seeds, berries, you · **What happens:** eat, pass through, come out, be, not eat, not name · **To what, where:** berries, droppings, wild berries

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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 (Birds, seeds, berries, 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:8
# text = Birds eat berries, and the seeds pass through unharmed and come out in their droppings far away; some berries are poisonous to people, so never eat wild berries you cannot name.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	pass	pass	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	through	through	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	unharmed	unharm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
13	out	out	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	droppings	dropping	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
18	away	away	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
20	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
30	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
32	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
33	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
35	name	name	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	acl:relcl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | Birds | berries |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Patient |
| 2 | **pass through** | present | the seeds |  |  |  |  | through, unharm *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come out** | present | the seeds *not said here* |  |  | birds's droppings |  | away, out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | present | some berries |  |  |  |  | to people; poisonous *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **eat** | infinitive |  | wild berries |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Patient |
| 6 | **not** **name** | can | you | wild berries *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Theme |

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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.

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**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:8`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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