Flowers and pollination, sentence 4

Cartoons show bees making honey by squeezing flowers, or a single sunflower as one big flower; real bees turn nectar into honey inside the hive, and a sunflower head is hundreds of tiny flowers packed together.

Who acts: Cartoons, bees, real bees, sunflower head · What happens: show, make, turn, be, pack · To what, where: bees, honey, nectar, hundreds, tiny flowers

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 (Cartoons, bees, real bees, sunflower head), 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	Cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 show	nsubj
2	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 show	obj
4	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 bees	acl
5	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 making	obj
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 flowers	case
7	squeezing	squeezing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flowers	compound
8	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 making	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sunflower	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 sunflower	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 sunflower	det
12	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 sunflower	amod
13	sunflower	sunflower	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flowers	conj
14	as	as	ADP	_	17 flower	case
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 flower	nummod
16	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 flower	amod
17	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sunflower	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 turn	punct
19	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 bees	amod
20	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 turn	nsubj
21	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 show	parataxis
22	nectar	nectar	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 turn	obj
23	into	into	ADP	_	24 honey	case
24	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 turn	obl
25	inside	inside	ADP	_	27 hive	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 hive	det
27	hive	hive	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 turn	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 hundreds	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 hundreds	cc
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 head	det
31	sunflower	sunflower	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 head	compound
32	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 hundreds	nsubj
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 hundreds	cop
34	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 turn	conj
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 flowers	case
36	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 flowers	amod
37	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 hundreds	nmod
38	packed	pack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	37 flowers	acl
39	together	together	ADV	_	38 packed	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 show	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	show	present	Cartoons		bees			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bee=Recipient
2	make	gerund	bees not said here	honey			by squeezing flowers or a single sunflower as one big flower	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset honey=Product
3	turn	present	real bees	nectar		honey	inside the hive	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent nectar=Theme into honey=Trajectory
4	is a	present	a sunflower head	hundreds			of tiny flowers	tree rules
5	pack	participle		tiny flowers not said here			together property	vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: 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:4.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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