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- [dialect-mova.md](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/repo-docs/seeds/dialect-mova/) — The Mova dialect of Universal Dependencies (dialects/mova)
- [en-seeds-errors.md](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/repo-docs/seeds/en-seeds-errors/) — English annotation-error seeds (en/seeds/errors)
- [en-seeds-lexicon.md](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/repo-docs/seeds/en-seeds-lexicon/) — English seeds: lexicon and valency (en/seeds/lexicon)
- [en-seeds-morph.md](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/repo-docs/seeds/en-seeds-morph/) — English seeds: morphology (en/seeds/morph)
- [en-seeds-nominal.md](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/repo-docs/seeds/en-seeds-nominal/) — English grammar seeds: the noun phrase (en/seeds/nominal)
- [en-seeds-verbal.md](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/repo-docs/seeds/en-seeds-verbal/) — English grammar seeds: verbs and clauses (en/seeds/verbal)
- [global-seeds.md](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/repo-docs/seeds/global-seeds/) — Global-level seeds (global/seeds)

# Seeds, explained

A **seed** is a short Markdown note from which a rule or a piece of knowledge grows. Each page here covers one folder of seeds, with one section per seed: what it says, when it applies, examples, sources, and the rules or machine-readable blocks it defines.

| page | folder | what |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [Global-level seeds (global/seeds)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/repo-docs/seeds/global-seeds/) | `global/seeds` | the global level: values, concepts and categories, verb classes, links, relations, measures, senses of words written alike; compiled into Rust tables by `build.rs` |
| [English seeds: morphology (en/seeds/morph)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/repo-docs/seeds/en-seeds-morph/) | `en/seeds/morph` | English morphology: tags, lemmas, word formation |
| [English seeds: lexicon and valency (en/seeds/lexicon)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/repo-docs/seeds/en-seeds-lexicon/) | `en/seeds/lexicon` | word classes the parser needs to know (copula-like verbs, indirect-object verbs, …) |
| [English grammar seeds: the noun phrase (en/seeds/nominal)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/repo-docs/seeds/en-seeds-nominal/) | `en/seeds/nominal` | noun phrases: determiners, pronouns, numbers, names |
| [English grammar seeds: verbs and clauses (en/seeds/verbal)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/repo-docs/seeds/en-seeds-verbal/) | `en/seeds/verbal` | verbs and clauses: auxiliaries, objects, complements |
| [English annotation-error seeds (en/seeds/errors)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/repo-docs/seeds/en-seeds-errors/) | `en/seeds/errors` | typical annotation errors and the rules that catch them |
| [The Mova dialect of Universal Dependencies (dialects/mova)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/repo-docs/seeds/dialect-mova/) | `dialects/mova` | Mova's dialect of Universal Dependencies and the converters to and from it |

Grammar seeds in `en/seeds` carry `'''rule` blocks that the rule engine `en::expert` loads at run time (`en expert-check`); a test gate checks that every seed parses. Global seeds are compiled at build time.

The pages were written for release 0.3 (2026-10-03). The grammar pages cover every seed in their folders as of 2026-10-15. On the global page, `measures`, `selection` and `homographs` were added on 2026-10-15.

Related: [Worlds and knowledge](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/repo-docs/knowledge/) (the absurdity matrix), [Training Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/repo-docs/training/) (rules the model induces itself), [Training Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/repo-docs/training/), [The English layer](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/repo-docs/english/), [Pragmatics: frames — who did what to whom, why, and what came next](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/repo-docs/pragmatics/).

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