Flowers and pollination, sentence 3

Grasses do not bother with any of that: they throw millions of tiny pollen grains into the wind, which is why so many people sneeze with hay fever in June.

Who acts: Grasses, many people · What happens: not bother, throw, be, sneeze · To what, where: millions, wind

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 (Grasses, many people), 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	Grasses	grass	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bother	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bother	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 bother	advmod
4	bother	bother	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 any	case
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	4 bother	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 that	case
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 any	nmod
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 throw	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 throw	nsubj
11	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bother	parataxis
12	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 throw	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 grains	case
14	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 grains	amod
15	pollen	pollen	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 grains	compound
16	grains	grain	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 millions	nmod
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 wind	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 wind	det
19	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 throw	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 why	punct
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 why	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 why	cop
23	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	27 sneeze	advmod
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 many	advmod
25	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 people	amod
26	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 sneeze	nsubj
27	sneeze	sneeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 wind	acl
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 fever	case
29	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fever	compound
30	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sneeze	obl
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 June	case
32	June	June	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 sneeze	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bother	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not bother	present · do-support	Grasses			with any	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	throw	present	Grasses = grass	millions of tiny pollen grains		into the wind result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer million=Theme into wind=Result
3	is	present				why property	tree rules
4	sneeze	present	many people		june	with hay fever	vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:3.

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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