The big biology quiz, part 3: dinosaurs, evolution, conservation and food, sentence 21

Bees and other pollinators carry pollen between flowers so fruit and seeds can form, and about a third of our food depends on pollinators; wild bees need flowers and fewer poisons.

Who acts: Bees, fruit, third, wild bees · What happens: carry, form, depend, need · To what, where: pollen, flowers

This is a sentence of the lesson «The big biology quiz, part 3: dinosaurs, evolution, conservation and 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, third, 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	Bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 carry	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 pollinators	cc
3	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pollinators	amod
4	pollinators	pollinator	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Bees	conj
5	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	pollen	pollen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carry	obj
7	between	between	ADP	_	8 flowers	case
8	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 carry	obl
9	so	so	SCONJ	_	14 form	mark
10	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 form	nsubj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 seeds	cc
12	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 fruit	conj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 form	aux
14	form	form	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 carry	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 depends	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 depends	cc
17	about	about	ADP	_	19 third	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 third	det
19	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 depends	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 food	case
21	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 food	nmod:poss
22	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 third	nmod
23	depends	depend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 carry	conj
24	on	on	ADP	_	25 pollinators	case
25	pollinators	pollinator	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 depends	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 need	punct
27	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 bees	amod
28	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 need	nsubj
29	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 carry	parataxis
30	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 need	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 poisons	cc
32	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 poisons	amod
33	poisons	poison	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 flowers	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 carry	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	carry	present	Bees and other pollinators	pollen	between flowers	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pollen=Theme
2	form	can	fruit and seeds			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	depend	present	a third of our food		on pollinators	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on pollinator=Theme
4	need	present	wild bees	flowers and fewer poisons		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot flower=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:300-the-big-biology-quiz-part-3-dinosaurs-evolution-conservation-and-food.lesson:21.

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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