Bees beyond the hive: bumblebees, solitary bees, carpenter bees and stingless bees, sentence 9
In buzz pollination a bumblebee vibrates its muscles to shake pollen out of flowers like tomatoes, whose pollen is held in tubes; greenhouse tomato farmers often keep boxes of bumblebees.
Who acts: bumblebee, tomato farmers · What happens: vibrate, shake, hold, keep · To what, where: muscles, buzz pollination, pollen, flowers, tubes, boxes
This is a sentence of the lesson «Bees beyond the hive: bumblebees, solitary bees, carpenter bees and stingless bees» 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 (bumblebee, tomato farmers), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 pollination | case |
| 2 | buzz | buzz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pollination | compound |
| 3 | pollination | pollination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 vibrates | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bumblebee | det |
| 5 | bumblebee | bumblebee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 vibrates | nsubj |
| 6 | vibrates | vibrate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 muscles | nmod:poss |
| 8 | muscles | muscle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 vibrates | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 shake | mark |
| 10 | shake | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 vibrates | advcl |
| 11 | pollen | pollen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shake | obj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 flowers | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 flowers | case |
| 14 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 shake | obl |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 tomatoes | case |
| 16 | tomatoes | tomato | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 flowers | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 held | punct |
| 18 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 19 pollen | nmod:poss |
| 19 | pollen | pollen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 held | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 held | aux:pass |
| 21 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 tomatoes | acl:relcl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 tubes | case |
| 23 | tubes | tube | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 held | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 farmers | punct |
| 25 | greenhouse | greenhouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 tomato | compound |
| 26 | tomato | tomato | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 farmers | compound |
| 27 | farmers | farmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 keep | nsubj |
| 28 | often | often | ADV | _ | 29 keep | advmod |
| 29 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 vibrates | parataxis |
| 30 | boxes | box | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 keep | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 bumblebees | case |
| 32 | bumblebees | bumblebee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 boxes | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 vibrates | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vibrate | present | a bumblebee | pollination's muscles | buzz pollination | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent muscle=Patient | |||
| 2 | shake | to-infinitive | a bumblebee not said here | pollen | flowers like tomatoes | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent pollen=Theme out flower=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | hold | present · passive | pollen | tubes | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in tube=Location | ||||
| 4 | keep | present | tomato farmers | boxes of bumblebees | often property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=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:305-bees-beyond-the-hive-bumblebees-solitary-bees-carpenter-bees-and-stingless-bees.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): R5-strong ×3, 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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