Flowers and pollination, sentence 17
Bumblebees can buzz at a special pitch that shakes pollen out of tomato flowers, and farmers use them in greenhouses.
Who acts: Bumblebees, special pitch, farmers · What happens: buzz, shake, use · To what, where: pollen, tomato flowers, substances, greenhouses
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 (Bumblebees, special pitch, farmers), 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 | 3 buzz | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 buzz | aux |
| 3 | buzz | buzz | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 pitch | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pitch | det |
| 6 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pitch | amod |
| 7 | pitch | pitch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 buzz | obl |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 shakes | nsubj |
| 9 | shakes | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 pitch | acl:relcl |
| 10 | pollen | pollen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shakes | obj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 flowers | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 flowers | case |
| 13 | tomato | tomato | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 flowers | compound |
| 14 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 pollen | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 use | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 use | cc |
| 17 | farmers | farmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 use | nsubj |
| 18 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 buzz | conj |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 use | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 greenhouses | case |
| 21 | greenhouses | greenhouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 use | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 buzz | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buzz | can | Bumblebees | at a special pitch | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at pitch=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | shake | present | a special pitch | pollen | tomato flowers | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent pollen=Theme out flower=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | use | present | farmers | substances = substance | greenhouses | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:17.
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): no change. 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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