Flowers and pollination, sentence 13

Some orchids look like female insects to trick males into visiting; there are about 28000 kinds of orchid, and in Britain the bee orchid usually pollinates itself.

Who acts: orchids, 28000 kinds, bee orchid · What happens: look, trick, visit, be about, pollinate · To what, where: males, kind, Britain

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 (orchids, 28000 kinds, bee orchid), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 orchids	det
2	orchids	orchid	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 look	nsubj
3	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 insects	case
5	female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 insects	amod
6	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 look	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 trick	mark
8	trick	trick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 look	advcl
9	males	male	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 trick	obj
10	into	into	SCONJ	_	11 visiting	mark
11	visiting	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 trick	advcl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 are	punct
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 are	expl
14	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 look	parataxis
15	about	about	ADV	_	16 28000	advmod
16	28000	28000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 kinds	nummod
17	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 are	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 orchid	case
19	orchid	orchid	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 kinds	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 pollinates	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 pollinates	cc
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 Britain	case
23	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 pollinates	obl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 orchid	det
25	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 orchid	compound
26	orchid	orchid	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 pollinates	nsubj
27	usually	usually	ADV	_	28 pollinates	advmod
28	pollinates	pollinate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 look	parataxis
29	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 pollinates	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 look	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	present	some orchids			like female insects	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	trick	to-infinitive	some orchids not said here	males			vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent male=Patient
3	visit	gerund	some orchids not said here				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	be about	present	28000 kinds of orchid		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	pollinate	present	the bee orchid	kind	Britain	usually property	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:058-flowers-and-pollination.lesson:13.

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 ×3. 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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