Flowers, pollination and how seeds travel, sentence 8
Bright petals, scent and nectar, a sweet sugary juice, attract insects that carry pollen.
Who acts: Bright petals, insects · What happens: attract, carry · To what, where: insects, pollen
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 (Bright petals, insects), 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 | Bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 petals | amod |
| 2 | petals | petal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 attract | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 scent | punct |
| 4 | scent | scent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 petals | conj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 nectar | cc |
| 6 | nectar | nectar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 scent | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 juice | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 juice | det |
| 9 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 juice | amod |
| 10 | sugary | sugary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 juice | amod |
| 11 | juice | juice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 petals | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 attract | punct |
| 13 | attract | attract | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 attract | obj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 carry | nsubj |
| 16 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 insects | acl:relcl |
| 17 | pollen | pollen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 carry | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 attract | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attract | present | Bright petals and scent and nectar | insects | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Patient | ||||
| 2 | carry | present | insects | pollen | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pollen=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:8.
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. 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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