Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our food, sentence 9
Honeybees are kept by beekeepers and are not close to dying out, but many wild bees and other pollinators are declining because of lost flowers, pesticides, disease and climate change.
Who acts: beekeepers, many wild bees · What happens: keep, not be, die out, decline, lose · To what, where: Honeybees
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 (beekeepers, many wild bees), 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 | Honeybees | honeybee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 kept | aux:pass |
| 3 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 beekeepers | case |
| 5 | beekeepers | beekeeper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 kept | obl:agent |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 close | cc |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 close | cop |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 close | advmod |
| 9 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 kept | conj |
| 10 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 11 dying | mark |
| 11 | dying | die | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 close | advcl |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 dying | compound:prt |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 declining | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 declining | cc |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 bees | amod |
| 16 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 bees | amod |
| 17 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 declining | nsubj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 pollinators | cc |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 pollinators | amod |
| 20 | pollinators | pollinator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 bees | conj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 declining | aux |
| 22 | declining | decline | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 kept | conj |
| 23 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 26 flowers | case |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 because | fixed |
| 25 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 flowers | amod |
| 26 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 declining | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 pesticides | punct |
| 28 | pesticides | pesticide | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 flowers | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 disease | punct |
| 30 | disease | disease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 flowers | conj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 change | cc |
| 32 | climate | climate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 change | compound |
| 33 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 flowers | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present · passive | beekeepers | Honeybees | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not is | present | beekeepers not said here | close property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | die out | gerund | beekeepers not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | decline | present · progressive | many wild bees and other pollinators | because lost flowers and pesticides and disease and climate change | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: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): R3-conj-first ×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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