Flowers and pollination, sentence 8

Hummingbirds drink nectar from long tube-shaped flowers and get pollen on their heads; their wings beat about 50 to 80 times a second.

Who acts: Hummingbirds, wings · What happens: drink, shape, get, beat about · To what, where: nectar, long shaped flowers, pollen, heads

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 (Hummingbirds, wings), 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	Hummingbirds	hummingbird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 drink	nsubj
2	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nectar	nectar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drink	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	9 flowers	case
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 flowers	amod
6	tube	tube	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shaped	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 tube	punct
8	shaped	shape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 flowers	amod
9	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 drink	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 get	cc
11	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 drink	conj
12	pollen	pollen	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 get	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 heads	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 heads	nmod:poss
15	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 get	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 wings	punct
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 wings	nmod:poss
18	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 beat	nsubj
19	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 drink	parataxis
20	about	about	ADV	_	21 50	advmod
21	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	24 times	nummod
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 80	case
23	80	80	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 50	nmod
24	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 wings	obl:unmarked
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 second	det
26	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	24 times	amod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 drink	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	drink	present	Hummingbirds	nectar	long shaped flowers	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nectar=Patient
2	shape	participle				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	get	present	Hummingbirds not said here	pollen	hummingbirds's heads	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent pollen=Theme on head=Source
4	beat about	present	hummingbirds's wings			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: 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:8.

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): R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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