Bees, wasps and stings, sentence 19
Bees are very important because they carry pollen between flowers and help plants make fruit and seeds.
Who acts: Bees, plants · What happens: be, carry, help, make · To what, where: pollen, plants, fruit
This is a sentence of the lesson «Bees, wasps and stings» of the everyday 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 (Bees, plants), 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 | Bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 important | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 important | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 important | advmod |
| 4 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 7 carry | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 carry | nsubj |
| 7 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 important | advcl |
| 8 | pollen | pollen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 carry | obj |
| 9 | between | between | ADP | _ | 10 flowers | case |
| 10 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 pollen | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 help | cc |
| 12 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 carry | conj |
| 13 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 help | obj |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 help | xcomp |
| 15 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 make | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 seeds | cc |
| 17 | seeds | seed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 fruit | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 important | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Bees | important property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | carry | present | Bees = bee | pollen | between flowers | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pollen=Theme | |||
| 3 | help | present | Bees = bee not said here | plants | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent plant=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | infinitive | plants not said here | fruit and seeds | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fruit=Product |
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:everyday:024-bees-and-wasps.lesson:19.
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 ×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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