Flowers, pollination and how seeds travel, sentence 10

Grasses and many trees are pollinated by the wind and have small, dull flowers with lots of light pollen; they make huge amounts because most of it blows away and never reaches another flower.

Who acts: wind, Grasses, most · What happens: pollinate, have, make, blow away, not reach · To what, where: Grasses, small dull flowers, huge amounts, flower

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 (wind, Grasses, most), 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	6 pollinated	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 trees	cc
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 trees	amod
4	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Grasses	conj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 pollinated	aux:pass
6	pollinated	pollinate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 wind	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wind	det
9	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pollinated	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 have	cc
11	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 pollinated	conj
12	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 flowers	amod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 small	punct
14	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 flowers	amod
15	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 have	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 lots	case
17	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 flowers	nmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 pollen	case
19	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pollen	compound
20	pollen	pollen	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lots	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 make	punct
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 make	nsubj
23	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 pollinated	parataxis
24	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 amounts	amod
25	amounts	amount	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 make	obj
26	because	because	SCONJ	_	30 blows	mark
27	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 blows	nsubj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 most	nmod
30	blows	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 make	advcl
31	away	away	ADV	_	30 blows	advmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 reaches	cc
33	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	34 reaches	advmod
34	reaches	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 blows	conj
35	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	36 flower	det
36	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 reaches	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 pollinated	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pollinate	present · passive	the wind	Grasses and many trees		tree rules
2	have	present	the wind not said here	small dull flowers	with lots of light pollen	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient
3	make	present	Grasses = grass	huge amounts		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset amount=Product
4	blow away	present	most of pollen		away property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
5	not reach	present	most of pollen not said here	another flower		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent flower=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:world:023-flowers-and-seeds.lesson:10.

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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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