--- title: Sunflowers live for one summer: they grow, flower, make seeds and di… — Why living things die, and the circle of life in… · tree and pragmatics description: Sunflowers live for one summer: they grow, flower, make seeds and die, which is their natural life. Who acts: Sunflowers, hunting. A sentence of the lesson «Why living things die, and the circle of life in nature» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/53-why-living-things-die-and-the-circle-of-life/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/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [Why living things die, and the circle…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/53-why-living-things-die-and-the-circle-of-life/) / 11 # Why living things die, and the circle of life in nature, sentence 11 Sunflowers live for one summer: they grow, flower, make seeds and die, which is their natural life. **Who acts:** Sunflowers, hunting · **What happens:** live, grow, flower, make, die, be · **To what, where:** seeds, natural life This is a sentence of the lesson «Why living things die, and the circle of life in nature» of the religion ethics 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 (Sunflowers, hunting), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:053-why-living-things-die-and-the-circle-of-life.lesson:11 # text = Sunflowers live for one summer: they grow, flower, make seeds and die, which is their natural life. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 053-why-living-things-die-and-the-circle-of-life.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): R3-conj-first ×1 1 Sunflowers sunflower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 for for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 flower flower VERB NN Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 13 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 die die VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=12:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 19 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 20 natural natural ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 acl:relcl _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | present | Sunflowers | | | | summer | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **grow** | present | hunting | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **flower** | | hunting *not said here* | | | | | | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **make** | present | hunting *not said here* | seeds | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset seed=Product | | 5 | **die** | present | hunting *not said here* | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 6 | **is a** | present | | hunting's natural life | | | | | tree rules | 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:religion-ethics:053-why-living-things-die-and-the-circle-of-life.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): R3-conj-first ×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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