Flowers and pollination, sentence 9

Grasses and trees like birch and hazel are pollinated by the wind; they make huge amounts of light pollen and have small, green, unscented flowers.

Who acts: wind, Grasses · What happens: pollinate, make, have, amount · To what, where: Grasses, huge amounts, small green unscented flowers, light pollen

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 (wind, Grasses), 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	9 pollinated	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 trees	cc
3	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Grasses	conj
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 birch	case
5	birch	birch	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Grasses	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hazel	cc
7	hazel	hazel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 birch	conj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 pollinated	aux:pass
9	pollinated	pollinate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 wind	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wind	det
12	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pollinated	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 make	punct
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 make	nsubj
15	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 pollinated	parataxis
16	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 amounts	amod
17	amounts	amount	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 make	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 pollen	case
19	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pollen	compound
20	pollen	pollen	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 amounts	nmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 have	cc
22	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 make	conj
23	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 flowers	amod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 green	punct
25	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 flowers	amod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 unscented	punct
27	unscented	unscent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 flowers	amod
28	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 have	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 pollinated	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	pollinate	present · passive	the wind	Grasses like birch and hazel and trees	tree rules
2	make	present	Grasses = grass	huge amounts of light pollen	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset amount=Product
3	have	present	Grasses = grass not said here	small green unscented flowers	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient
4	amount			light pollen	nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient

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:9.

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 ×2, 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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