The big biology quiz, part 2: plants, the body and microbes, sentence 6

Flowers make seeds after pollination by bees, wind or birds, and the fruit grows around the seeds to help spread them.

Who acts: Flowers, fruit, bees · What happens: make, grow, help, spread, pollinate · To what, where: seeds, Flowers

This is a sentence of the lesson «The big biology quiz, part 2: plants, the body and microbes» 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 (Flowers, fruit, 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	Flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	obj
4	after	after	ADP	_	5 pollination	case
5	pollination	pollination	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obl
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 bees	case
7	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pollination	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wind	punct
9	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bees	conj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 birds	cc
11	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 wind	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 grows	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 grows	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fruit	det
15	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 grows	nsubj
16	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 make	conj
17	around	around	ADP	_	19 seeds	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 seeds	det
19	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 grows	obl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 help	mark
21	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 grows	advcl
22	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 help	xcomp
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 spread	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 make	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	make	present	Flowers	seeds		after pollination by bees and wind or birds	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset seed=Product
2	grow	present	the fruit		the seeds		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around seed=Location
3	help	to-infinitive	the fruit not said here				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	spread	infinitive	the fruit not said here	Flowers = flower			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme
5	pollinate		bees and wind or birds				nom pollination «event transitive»: by=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:299-the-big-biology-quiz-part-2-plants-the-body-and-microbes.lesson:6.

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 ×2, 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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