Flowers and pollination, sentence 11

Evening primrose and honeysuckle open in the evening with pale petals, which show up best in dim light, and a strong scent, and are pollinated by night-flying moths.

Who acts: Evening primrose, pale petals, flying moths · What happens: open, show up, pollinate, fly · To what, where: dim light

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 (Evening primrose, pale petals, flying moths), 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	Evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 primrose	compound
2	primrose	primrose	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 open	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 honeysuckle	cc
4	honeysuckle	honeysuckle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 primrose	conj
5	open	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 evening	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 evening	det
8	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 open	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 petals	case
10	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 petals	amod
11	petals	petal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 open	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 petals	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 show	nsubj
14	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 petals	acl:relcl
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 show	compound:prt
16	best	good	ADV	Degree=Sup	14 show	advmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 light	case
18	dim	dim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 light	amod
19	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 show	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 scent	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 scent	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 scent	det
23	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 scent	amod
24	scent	scent	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 light	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 pollinated	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 pollinated	cc
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 pollinated	aux:pass
28	pollinated	pollinate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 show	conj
29	by	by	ADP	_	33 moths	case
30	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 flying	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 flying	punct
32	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 moths	amod
33	moths	moth	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 pollinated	obl:agent
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 open	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	present	Evening primrose and honeysuckle		evening	with pale petals	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	show up	present	pale petals	dim light and a strong scent		good property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in light=Location
3	pollinate	present · passive	flying moths				tree rules
4	fly	gerund					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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:058-flowers-and-pollination.lesson:11.

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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