Flowers, pollination and how seeds travel, sentence 1

In its middle are the stamens, which make a fine powder called pollen, and the pistil, which holds tiny eggs called ovules.

Who acts: stamens, fine powder, pistil, tiny eggs · What happens: be, make, call, hold · To what, where: stamens, middle, fine powder, pollen, tiny eggs, ovules · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Flowers, pollination and how seeds travel» of the world 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 (stamens, fine powder, pistil, tiny eggs), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 middle	case
2	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 middle	nmod:poss
3	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stamens	obl
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 stamens	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stamens	det
6	stamens	stamen	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stamens	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 make	nsubj
9	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 stamens	acl:relcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 powder	det
11	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 powder	amod
12	powder	powder	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 make	obj
13	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 powder	acl
14	pollen	pollen	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 called	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 pistil	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 pistil	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 pistil	det
18	pistil	pistil	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stamens	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 holds	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 holds	nsubj
21	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 pistil	acl:relcl
22	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 eggs	amod
23	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 holds	obj
24	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 eggs	acl
25	ovules	ovule	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 called	xcomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 middle	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present		the stamens and the pistil	flower's middle	tree rules
2	make	present	the stamens and the pistil	a fine powder		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset powder=Product
3	call	participle	a fine powder not said here	pollen		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hold	present	the pistil	tiny eggs		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme
5	call	participle	tiny eggs not said here	ovules		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:world:023-flowers-and-seeds.lesson:1.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-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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