--- title: A dandelion seed is tiny and light, and its hairs make a big area fo… — Parachutes, skydivers and falling safely · tree and pragmatics description: A dandelion seed is tiny and light, and its hairs make a big area for its weight, so it falls very slowly and the wind carries it far. Who acts: dandelion seed, hairs, seed, 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, hairs, seed, wind), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:physics:003-parachutes-and-falling-safely.lesson:8 # text = A dandelion seed is tiny and light, and its hairs make a big area for its weight, so it falls very slowly and the wind carries it far. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = physics # lesson = 003-parachutes-and-falling-safely.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 ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 dandelion dandelion NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 seed seed NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 light light ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 hairs hair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 area area NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 falls fall VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 23 very very ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 carries carry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 28 advmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | a dandelion seed | | | | | tiny *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | a dandelion seed *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **make** | present | seed's hairs | a big area | | | | for seed's weight | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent area=Product for weight=Asset | | 4 | **fall** | present | seed | | | | | slowly *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **carry** | present | the wind | seed | | | | far *property* | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:physics:003-parachutes-and-falling-safely.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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Parachutes, skydivers and falling safely, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/3-parachutes-and-falling-safely/7/) - next →: [Parachutes, skydivers and falling safely, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/3-parachutes-and-falling-safely/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/3-parachutes-and-falling-safely/)