Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our food, sentence 13

Every spring about two thirds of America's managed honeybee hives are carried on lorries to pollinate California's almond farms, one of the biggest pollination events in the world.

What happens: manage, carry, pollinate · To what, where: lorries, almond farms

This is a sentence of the lesson «Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our food» 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: 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 spring	det
2	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 carried	obl
3	about	about	ADV	_	4 two	advmod
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 thirds	nummod
5	thirds	third	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 spring	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	11 hives	case
7	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 hives	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 America	case
9	managed	manage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 hives	amod
10	honeybee	honeybee	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hives	compound
11	hives	hive	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 thirds	nmod
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 carried	aux:pass
13	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 lorries	case
15	lorries	lorry	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 carried	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 pollinate	mark
17	pollinate	pollinate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 carried	advcl
18	California	California	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 farms	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 California	case
20	almond	almond	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 farms	compound
21	farms	farm	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 pollinate	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 one	punct
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 farms	appos
24	of	of	ADP	_	28 events	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 events	det
26	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	28 events	amod
27	pollination	pollination	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 events	compound
28	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 one	nmod
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 world	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 world	det
31	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 events	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 carried	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	manage	participle				vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	carry	present · passive		lorries	spring	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»
3	pollinate	to-infinitive	California's almond farms			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:291-bees-worms-and-soil-the-hidden-helpers-of-our-food.lesson:13.

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 ×2. 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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