Hidden senses: magnetic birds and turtles, ultraviolet bees, heat-seeing snakes, whiskers and lateral lines, sentence 2

A bee looking at a plain yellow flower sees a bright pattern pointing to the nectar, like the lit-up arrows that guide a plane onto a runway at night.

Who acts: bee, bright pattern, up arrows · What happens: look, see, pointing, guide · To what, where: bright pattern, plane, runway

This is a sentence of the lesson «Hidden senses: magnetic birds and turtles, ultraviolet bees, heat-seeing snakes, whiskers and lateral lines» 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 (bee, bright pattern, up arrows), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bee	det
2	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sees	nsubj
3	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 bee	acl
4	at	at	ADP	_	8 flower	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 flower	det
6	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 flower	amod
7	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 flower	amod
8	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looking	obl
9	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 pattern	det
11	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 pattern	amod
12	pattern	pattern	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sees	obj
13	pointing	pointing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 pattern	acl
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 nectar	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 nectar	det
16	nectar	nectar	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pointing	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 arrows	punct
18	like	like	ADP	_	23 arrows	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 arrows	det
20	lit	lit	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 up	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 lit	punct
22	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 arrows	compound
23	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 pattern	appos
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 guide	nsubj
25	guide	guide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 arrows	acl:relcl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 plane	det
27	plane	plane	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 guide	obj
28	onto	onto	ADP	_	30 runway	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 runway	det
30	runway	runway	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 guide	obl
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 night	case
32	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 guide	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 sees	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	gerund	a bee not said here				at a plain yellow flower	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at flower=Theme
2	see	present	a bee	a bright pattern				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pattern=Stimulus
3	pointing	gerund	a bright pattern not said here				to the nectar	tree rules
4	guide	present	the up arrows	a plane	a runway	night		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent plane=Theme onto runway=Destination

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:232-hidden-senses-magnetic-birds-ultraviolet-bees-heat-seeing-snakes.lesson:2.

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 ×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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