Flowers and pollination, sentence 2

Every flower advertises to its own customers: bright colours and runway lines for bees, long red tubes for hummingbirds, pale petals and strong evening scent for moths, and even a stink of rotting meat for flies.

Who acts: flower, rotting meat · What happens: advertise, rot, stink · To what, where: bright colours

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, rotting meat), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 flower	det
2	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 advertises	nsubj
3	advertises	advertise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 customers	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 customers	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 customers	amod
7	customers	customer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 advertises	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 colours	punct
9	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 colours	amod
10	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 advertises	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 lines	cc
12	runway	runway	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lines	compound
13	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 colours	conj
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 bees	case
15	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 lines	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 tubes	punct
17	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 tubes	amod
18	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 tubes	amod
19	tubes	tube	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 colours	conj
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 hummingbirds	case
21	hummingbirds	hummingbird	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 tubes	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 petals	punct
23	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 petals	amod
24	petals	petal	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 colours	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 scent	cc
26	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 scent	amod
27	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 scent	compound
28	scent	scent	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 petals	conj
29	for	for	ADP	_	30 moths	case
30	moths	moth	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 scent	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 stink	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 stink	cc
33	even	even	ADV	_	35 stink	advmod
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 stink	det
35	stink	stink	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 colours	conj
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 meat	case
37	rotting	rot	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	38 meat	amod
38	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 stink	nmod
39	for	for	ADP	_	40 flies	case
40	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 stink	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 advertises	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	advertise	present	every flower	bright colours and runway lines for bees and long red tubes for hummingbirds and pale petals and strong evening scent for moths and a stink of rotting meat for flies	to flower's own customers	vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot colour=Topic
2	rot	gerund				vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	stink		rotting meat		for flies	nom stink «cognition intransitive»: of=agent for=obl

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:2.

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. 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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