Bees and wasps in the garden, sentence 4

Wasps that pester us at picnics in late summer are not villains either: all summer they hunt caterpillars and flies in the garden, and they carry pollen from flower to flower too.

Who acts: Wasps, flower · What happens: pester, not be, hunt, carry, flower · To what, where: us, picnics, villains, caterpillars, garden, pollen

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 (Wasps, flower), 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	Wasps	wasp	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 villains	nsubj
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 pester	nsubj
3	pester	pester	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Wasps	acl:relcl
4	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 pester	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 picnics	case
6	picnics	picnic	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pester	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 summer	case
8	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 summer	amod
9	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pester	obl
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 villains	cop
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 villains	advmod
12	villains	villain	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 hunt	parataxis
13	either	either	ADV	_	12 villains	advmod
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 hunt	punct
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 summer	det
16	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hunt	obl:unmarked
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 hunt	nsubj
18	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	caterpillars	caterpillar	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 hunt	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 flies	cc
21	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 caterpillars	conj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 garden	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 garden	det
24	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hunt	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 carry	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 carry	cc
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 carry	nsubj
28	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 hunt	conj
29	pollen	pollen	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 carry	obj
30	from	from	ADP	_	31 flower	case
31	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 carry	obl
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 flower	case
33	flower	flower	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 flower	acl
34	too	too	ADV	_	28 carry	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 villains	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pester	present	Wasps	us	picnics	summer		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus we=Experiencer
2	not is a	present	Wasps	villains			either property	tree rules
3	hunt	present	Wasps = wasp	caterpillars and flies	the garden	summer		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent caterpillar=Theme in garden=Location
4	carry	present	Wasps = wasp	pollen	flower			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent pollen=Theme from flower=Initial_Location
5	flower	infinitive	flower not said here					vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP 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, 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: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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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.

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