Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our food, sentence 7

Bees carry pollen from flower to flower so that fruit can form, and about one in every three mouthfuls we eat depends on pollinators such as bees.

Who acts: Bees, fruit, we, one · What happens: carry, form, eat, depend · To what, where: pollen, flower, three mouthfuls

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: who acts (Bees, fruit, we, one), 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 carry	nsubj
2	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	pollen	pollen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carry	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 flower	case
5	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carry	obl
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 flower	case
7	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flower	nmod
8	so	so	SCONJ	_	12 form	mark
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 fruit	det
10	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 form	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 form	aux
12	form	form	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 carry	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 depends	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 depends	cc
15	about	about	ADV	_	16 one	advmod
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 depends	nsubj
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 mouthfuls	case
18	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	20 mouthfuls	det
19	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 mouthfuls	nummod
20	mouthfuls	mouthful	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 one	nmod
21	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 eat	nsubj
22	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 mouthfuls	acl:relcl
23	depends	depend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 carry	conj
24	on	on	ADP	_	25 pollinators	case
25	pollinators	pollinator	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 depends	obl
26	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	28 bees	case
27	as	as	ADP	_	26 such	fixed
28	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 pollinators	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 carry	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	carry	present	Bees	pollen	flower to flower		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent pollen=Theme from flower=Initial_Location
2	form	can	that fruit				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	eat	present	we	every three mouthfuls not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouthful=Patient
4	depend	present	one in every three mouthfuls			on pollinators such bees	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on pollinator=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:291-bees-worms-and-soil-the-hidden-helpers-of-our-food.lesson:7.

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 ×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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