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title: Some seeds float on water, like coconuts, and some are shot out when… — Flowers, pollination and how seeds travel · tree and pragmatics
description: Some seeds float on water, like coconuts, and some are shot out when the pod bursts open, like peas and some beans. Who acts: seeds, pod. 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 pragmatics of e
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# Flowers, pollination and how seeds travel, sentence 16

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Some seeds float on water, like coconuts, and some are shot out when the pod bursts open, like peas and some beans.

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**Who acts:** seeds, pod · **What happens:** float, shoot out, burst · **To what, where:** water, some

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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 (seeds, pod), 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:16
# text = Some seeds float on water, like coconuts, and some are shot out when the pod bursts open, like peas and some beans.
# 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	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	float	float	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	coconuts	coconut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	shot	shoot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	pod	pod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	bursts	burst	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
19	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	like	like	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	peas	pea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
25	beans	bean	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **float** | present | some seeds |  |  | water |  | like coconuts | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on water=Trajectory |
| 2 | **shoot out** | present · passive |  | some |  |  |  | like peas and some beans | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **burst** | present | the pod |  |  |  |  | open *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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**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:16`.

**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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