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title: Scientists found that a dandelion seed's parachute makes a little ri… — Parachutes, skydivers and falling safely · tree and pragmatics
description: Scientists found that a dandelion seed's parachute makes a little ring of swirling air above it that holds it up longer. Who acts: Scientists, parachute, little ring. A sentence of the lesson «Parachutes, skydivers and falling safely» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependenc
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# Parachutes, skydivers and falling safely, sentence 9

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Scientists found that a dandelion seed's parachute makes a little ring of swirling air above it that holds it up longer.

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**Who acts:** Scientists, parachute, little ring · **What happens:** find, make, swirl, hold up · **To what, where:** little ring, seed · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Parachutes, skydivers and falling safely» of the physics 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 (Scientists, parachute, little ring), 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:9
# text = Scientists found that a dandelion seed's parachute makes a little ring of swirling air above it that holds it up longer.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	dandelion	dandelion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	parachute	parachute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	swirling	swirl	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
15	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:obj
16	above	above	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
19	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
22	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
23	.	.	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 | **find** | past | Scientists |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | present | a dandelion seed's parachute | a little ring  air |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ring=Product |
| 3 | **swirl** | gerund | a little ring  air *not said here* |  |  | seed |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above it=Location |
| 4 | **hold up** | present | a little ring  air | seed |  |  |  | long *property* | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=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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**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, 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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