--- title: Pine cones open their scales in dry weather to let winged seeds blow… — Trees · tree and pragmatics description: Pine cones open their scales in dry weather to let winged seeds blow away, since seeds travel best on dry windy days, and close in damp air and rain; some open only after a forest fire. Who acts: Pine cones, winged seeds, seeds, some. A sentence of the lesson «Trees» of the biology course of Mova's --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/60-trees/11/) [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/) / [Trees](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/60-trees/) / 11 # Trees, sentence 11 Pine cones open their scales in dry weather to let winged seeds blow away, since seeds travel best on dry windy days, and close in damp air and rain; some open only after a forest fire. **Who acts:** Pine cones, winged seeds, seeds, some · **What happens:** open, let, wing, blow away, travel · **To what, where:** scales, dry weather This is a sentence of the lesson «Trees» 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 (Pine cones, winged seeds, seeds, some), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:060-trees.lesson:11 # text = Pine cones open their scales in dry weather to let winged seeds blow away, since seeds travel best on dry windy days, and close in damp air and rain; some open only after a forest fire. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 060-trees.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Pine pine NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 cones cone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 open open VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 scales scale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 weather weather NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 11 winged wing VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 amod _ _ 12 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 blow blow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 away away ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 since since SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:mark 17 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:compound 18 travel travel NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 best well ADV RBS Degree=Sup 13 advcl _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 22 windy windy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 parataxis _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 damp damp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:conj 32 ; ; PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct 33 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 34 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=34:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 34 open open VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 35 only only ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 36 after after ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 40 . . 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 | **open** | present | Pine cones | cones's scales | | dry weather | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent scale=Theme in weather=Location | | 2 | **let** | to-infinitive | Pine cones *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **wing** | participle | | | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **blow away** | infinitive | winged seeds | | | | | away *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **travel** | | seeds | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **open** | present | some | | | | after a forest fire | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:060-trees.lesson:11`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Trees, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/60-trees/10/) - next →: [Trees, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/60-trees/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/60-trees/)