Hidden senses: magnetic birds and turtles, ultraviolet bees, heat-seeing snakes, whiskers and lateral lines, sentence 9

Bees see ultraviolet light, and many flowers have ultraviolet patterns that guide them to the nectar; bees see red poorly, so many bright red flowers are pollinated by birds instead.

Who acts: Bees, many flowers, ultraviolet patterns, birds · What happens: see, have, guide, pollinate · To what, where: ultraviolet light, ultraviolet patterns, lights, nectar, many bright red flowers

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 (Bees, many flowers, ultraviolet patterns, birds), 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	Bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 see	nsubj
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	ultraviolet	ultraviolet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 light	amod
4	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 see	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 have	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 have	cc
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 flowers	amod
8	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 have	nsubj
9	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 see	conj
10	ultraviolet	ultraviolet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 patterns	amod
11	patterns	pattern	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 have	obj
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 guide	nsubj
13	guide	guide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 patterns	acl:relcl
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 guide	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 nectar	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 nectar	det
17	nectar	nectar	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 guide	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 see	punct
19	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 see	nsubj
20	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 see	parataxis
21	red	red	ADV	_	20 see	advmod
22	poorly	poorly	ADV	_	20 see	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 pollinated	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	30 pollinated	advmod
25	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 flowers	amod
26	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 flowers	amod
27	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 flowers	amod
28	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 pollinated	nsubj:pass
29	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 pollinated	aux:pass
30	pollinated	pollinate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 see	parataxis
31	by	by	ADP	_	32 birds	case
32	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 pollinated	obl
33	instead	instead	ADV	_	30 pollinated	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 see	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	present	Bees	ultraviolet light			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus
2	have	present	many flowers	ultraviolet patterns			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pattern=Patient
3	guide	present	ultraviolet patterns	lights = light	the nectar		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to nectar=Destination
4	see	present	bees			poorly, red property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	pollinate	present · passive	birds	many bright red flowers		instead 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:232-hidden-senses-magnetic-birds-ultraviolet-bees-heat-seeing-snakes.lesson:9.

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): R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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