Flowers and pollination, sentence 1

Plants cannot walk to each other, so they hire couriers and pay them in food: a bumblebee visiting foxgloves drinks sweet nectar, and comes out with yellow pollen on its legs and furry body, ready for the next flower.

Who acts: Plants, bumblebee · What happens: not walk, hire, pay, visit, drink, come out · To what, where: couriers, food, foxgloves, sweet nectar

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 (Plants, bumblebee), 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	Plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 walk	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 walk	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 walk	advmod
4	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 each	case
6	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	4 walk	obl
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 each	fixed
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hire	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 hire	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hire	nsubj
11	hire	hire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 walk	parataxis
12	couriers	courier	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 hire	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 pay	cc
14	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 hire	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 pay	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 food	case
17	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pay	obl
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 drinks	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 bumblebee	det
20	bumblebee	bumblebee	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 drinks	nsubj
21	visiting	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 bumblebee	acl
22	foxgloves	foxglove	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 visiting	obj
23	drinks	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 pay	parataxis
24	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 nectar	amod
25	nectar	nectar	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 drinks	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 comes	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 comes	cc
28	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 drinks	conj
29	out	out	ADP	_	28 comes	compound:prt
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 pollen	case
31	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 pollen	amod
32	pollen	pollen	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 comes	obl
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 legs	case
34	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 legs	nmod:poss
35	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 pollen	nmod
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 body	cc
37	furry	furry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 body	amod
38	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 legs	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 ready	punct
40	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 comes	xcomp
41	for	for	ADP	_	44 flower	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 flower	det
43	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 flower	amod
44	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 ready	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 walk	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not walk	can	Plants			to each result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to each=Result
2	hire	present	Plants = plant	couriers			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courier=Theme
3	pay	infinitive	Plants = plant not said here	couriers = courier	food		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Asset
4	visit	gerund	a bumblebee not said here	foxgloves			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foxglove=Co-Agent
5	drink	present	a bumblebee	sweet nectar			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nectar=Patient
6	come out	present	a bumblebee not said here			with yellow pollen on pollen's legs and furry body; ready property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

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:1.

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 ×2. 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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