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title: After fertilisation the ovules become seeds and the flower's ovary,… — Flowers, pollination and how seeds travel · tree and pragmatics
description: After fertilisation the ovules become seeds and the flower's ovary, the swollen bottom part of the pistil, grows into a fruit. Who acts: ovules, ovary. A sentence of the lesson «Flowers, pollination and how seeds travel» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the p
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# Flowers, pollination and how seeds travel, sentence 11

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After fertilisation the ovules become seeds and the flower's ovary, the swollen bottom part of the pistil, grows into a fruit.

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**Who acts:** ovules, ovary · **What happens:** become, grow · **To what, where:** seeds, fruit

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Flowers, pollination and how seeds travel» of the world 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 (ovules, ovary), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:023-flowers-and-seeds.lesson:11
# text = After fertilisation the ovules become seeds and the flower's ovary, the swollen bottom part of the pistil, grows into a fruit.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 023-flowers-and-seeds.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): no change
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	fertilisation	fertilisation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ovules	ovule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	become	become	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	xcomp	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	ovary	ovary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	swollen	swollen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	bottom	bottom	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	pistil	pistil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
21	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | present | the ovules | seeds |  |  | after fertilisation |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **grow** | present | the flower's ovary |  |  |  |  | into a fruit *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into fruit=Result |

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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:world:023-flowers-and-seeds.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): no change. **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/).

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