Flowers and pollination, sentence 5

A flower has petals, stamens that make pollen and a carpel in the middle holding tiny ovules, which become seeds once pollen reaches the carpel.

Who acts: flower, stamens, middle, tiny ovules, pollen · What happens: have, make, hold, become, reach · To what, where: petals, pollen, middle, tiny ovules, seeds, carpel

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, stamens, middle, tiny ovules), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 flower	det
2	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	petals	petal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stamens	punct
6	stamens	stamen	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 petals	conj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 make	nsubj
8	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 stamens	acl:relcl
9	pollen	pollen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 make	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 carpel	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 carpel	det
12	carpel	carpel	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pollen	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 middle	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 middle	det
15	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 make	obl
16	holding	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 middle	acl
17	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 ovules	amod
18	ovules	ovule	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 holding	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 become	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 become	nsubj
21	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 ovules	acl:relcl
22	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 become	xcomp
23	once	once	SCONJ	_	25 reaches	mark
24	pollen	pollen	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 reaches	nsubj
25	reaches	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 become	advcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 carpel	det
27	carpel	carpel	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 reaches	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	present	a flower	petals and stamens		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent petal=Patient
2	make	present	stamens	pollen and a carpel	the middle	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pollen=Product
3	hold	gerund	the middle not said here	tiny ovules		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ovule=Theme
4	become	present	tiny ovules	seeds		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	reach	present	pollen	the carpel		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent carpel=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:5.

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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