Bees and wasps in the garden, sentence 10
Dandelions and other early flowers are important food for bees in spring, when few other flowers are open.
Who acts: Dandelions, few other flowers · What happens: be · To what, where: important food
This is a sentence of the lesson «Bees and wasps in the garden» of the biology 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 (Dandelions, few other flowers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dandelions | dandelion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 food | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 flowers | cc |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 flowers | amod |
| 4 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 flowers | amod |
| 5 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Dandelions | conj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 food | cop |
| 7 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 food | amod |
| 8 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 bees | case |
| 10 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 food | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 spring | case |
| 12 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bees | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 open | punct |
| 14 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 19 open | mark |
| 15 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 flowers | amod |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 flowers | amod |
| 17 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 open | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 open | cop |
| 19 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 food | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 food | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Dandelions and other early flowers | important food | for bees in spring | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | few other flowers | open property | 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, 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:biology:218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden.lesson:10.
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.
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