--- title: Seeds must travel away from their parent, so the young plants do not… — Flowers, pollination and how seeds travel · tree and pragmatics description: Seeds must travel away from their parent, so the young plants do not compete with it for light and water: dandelion seeds fly on little parachutes, burdock burrs hook onto fur, coconuts float, and berries are eaten by birds and dropped far away. 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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 (Seeds, young plants, dandelion seeds, burdock burrs), 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:4 # text = Seeds must travel away from their parent, so the young plants do not compete with it for light and water: dandelion seeds fly on little parachutes, burdock burrs hook onto fur, coconuts float, and berries are eaten by birds and dropped far away. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 travel travel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 away away ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 9 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 13 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 compete compete VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obl _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 22 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 23 dandelion dandelion NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 fly fly VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 parachutes parachute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 burdock burdock NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 burrs burr NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 32 hook hook VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 33 onto onto ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 coconuts coconut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 37 float float VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 40 berries berry NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 nsubj _ _ 41 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 aux:pass _ _ 42 eaten eat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 advcl _ _ 43 by by ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 obl _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 46 dropped drop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 42 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=42:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 47 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 48 advmod _ _ 48 away away ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 49 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **travel** | must | Seeds | | | | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **not** **compete** | present · do-support | the young plants | | | | | with parent; for light and water | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with it=Co-Agent | | 3 | **fly** | present | dandelion seeds | | | little parachutes | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on parachute=Location | | 4 | **hook** | present | burdock burrs | | | fur | | | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto fur=Destination | | 5 | **float** | present | coconuts | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **eat** | present · passive | birds | berries | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | | 7 | **drop** | participle | birds *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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:world:023-flowers-and-seeds.lesson:4`. **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): R8-pos-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: [Flowers, pollination and how seeds tra…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/23-flowers-and-seeds/3/) - next →: [Flowers, pollination and how seeds tra…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/23-flowers-and-seeds/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/23-flowers-and-seeds/)