Flowers, pollination and how seeds travel, sentence 2

Pollination happens when pollen gets carried from the stamens to the sticky top of a pistil, usually of another flower of the same kind; bees, butterflies, birds and the wind carry it.

Who acts: Pollination, bees · What happens: happen, carry · To what, where: pollen, stamens

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 (Pollination, bees), 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	Pollination	pollination	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 happens	nsubj
2	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 carried	advmod
4	pollen	pollen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 carried	nsubj:pass
5	gets	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 carried	aux:pass
6	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 happens	advcl
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 stamens	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stamens	det
9	stamens	stamen	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 carried	obl
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 top	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 top	det
12	sticky	sticky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 top	amod
13	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 carried	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 pistil	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 pistil	det
16	pistil	pistil	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 top	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 flower	punct
18	usually	usually	ADV	_	21 flower	advmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 flower	case
20	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	21 flower	det
21	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 top	conj
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 kind	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 kind	det
24	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 kind	amod
25	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 flower	nmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 carry	punct
27	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 carry	nsubj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 butterflies	punct
29	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 bees	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 birds	punct
31	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 bees	conj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 wind	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 wind	det
34	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bees	conj
35	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 happens	conj
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 carry	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 happens	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	happen	present	Pollination				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	carry	present · passive		pollen	the stamens	to the sticky top of a pistil and another flower of the same kind	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: subject=Theme from stamen=Initial_Location to top=Destination
3	carry	infinitive	bees and butterflies and birds and the wind	pollen			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:2.

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): no change. 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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