The vegetable patch: peas, potatoes, tomatoes and slugs, sentence 12

Bumblebees shake tomato flowers to release their pollen, which is called buzz pollination, and greenhouse growers keep boxes of bumblebees to pollinate tomatoes.

Who acts: Bumblebees, greenhouse growers · What happens: shake, release, call, keep, pollinate · To what, where: tomato flowers, pollen, boxes, tomatoes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The vegetable patch: peas, potatoes, tomatoes and slugs» 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 (Bumblebees, greenhouse growers), 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	Bumblebees	bumblebee	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 shake	nsubj
2	shake	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	tomato	tomato	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flowers	compound
4	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 shake	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 release	mark
6	release	release	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 shake	advcl
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 pollen	nmod:poss
8	pollen	pollen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 release	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 pollination	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 called	nsubj:pass
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 called	aux:pass
12	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 pollen	acl:relcl
13	buzz	buzz	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pollination	compound
14	pollination	pollination	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 called	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 keep	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 keep	cc
17	greenhouse	greenhouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 growers	compound
18	growers	grower	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 keep	nsubj
19	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 shake	conj
20	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 keep	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 bumblebees	case
22	bumblebees	bumblebee	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 boxes	nmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 pollinate	mark
24	pollinate	pollinate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 keep	advcl
25	tomatoes	tomato	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 pollinate	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 shake	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	shake	present	Bumblebees	tomato flowers	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent flower=Patient
2	release	to-infinitive	Bumblebees not said here	Scientists's pollen	vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer pollen=Source
3	call	present · passive		Scientists's pollen	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
4	keep	present	greenhouse growers	boxes of bumblebees	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme
5	pollinate	to-infinitive	greenhouse growers not said here	tomatoes	tree rules

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:338-the-vegetable-patch-peas-potatoes-tomatoes-and-slugs.lesson:12.

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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