Flowers and pollination, sentence 0
A flower is not there to look pretty for us: its job is to make seeds, and for that, pollen from the stamens must reach the carpel in the middle, usually of another flower of the same kind; that delivery is pollination.
Who acts: flower, job, pollen, delivery · What happens: be, look, reach, job · To what, where: carpel, middle, pollination
This is a sentence of the lesson «Flowers and pollination» 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 (flower, job, pollen, delivery), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 flower | det |
| 2 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 there | advmod |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 is | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 look | mark |
| 7 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 is | advcl |
| 8 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 7 look | advmod |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 us | case |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 look | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 make | punct |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 job | nmod:poss |
| 13 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 make | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 make | cop |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 make | mark |
| 16 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 is | parataxis |
| 17 | seeds | seed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 make | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 pollen | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 reach | cc |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 that | case |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 reach | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 that | punct |
| 23 | pollen | pollen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 reach | nsubj |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 stamens | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 stamens | det |
| 26 | stamens | stamen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 pollen | nmod |
| 27 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 reach | aux |
| 28 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 make | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 carpel | det |
| 30 | carpel | carpel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 reach | obj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 middle | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 middle | det |
| 33 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 reach | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 flower | punct |
| 35 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 28 reach | advmod |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 flower | case |
| 37 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 38 flower | det |
| 38 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 reach | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 kind | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 kind | det |
| 41 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 kind | amod |
| 42 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 flower | nmod |
| 43 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 47 pollination | punct |
| 44 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 45 delivery | det |
| 45 | delivery | delivery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 pollination | nsubj |
| 46 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 47 pollination | cop |
| 47 | pollination | pollination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | parataxis |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a flower | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | a flower not said here | for us; pretty property | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for we=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | flower's job | make property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | reach | must | pollen from the stamens | the carpel | the middle | for that; of another flower of the same kind; usually property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent carpel=Theme for that=Beneficiary | ||
| 5 | is a | present | that delivery | pollination | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | job | flower | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=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:058-flowers-and-pollination.lesson:0.
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 ×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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