Flowers, pollination and how seeds travel, sentence 9
Bees feed on nectar and pollen, and carry pollen from flower to flower on their hairy bodies.
Who acts: Bees · What happens: feed, carry · To what, where: pollen, 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 (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 | Bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 feed | nsubj |
| 2 | feed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 nectar | case |
| 4 | nectar | nectar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 feed | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 pollen | cc |
| 6 | pollen | pollen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nectar | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 carry | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 carry | cc |
| 9 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 feed | conj |
| 10 | pollen | pollen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carry | obj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 flower | case |
| 12 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carry | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 flower | case |
| 14 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flower | nmod |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 bodies | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 bodies | nmod:poss |
| 17 | hairy | hairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 bodies | amod |
| 18 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 carry | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 feed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feed | present | Bees | on nectar and pollen | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on nectar=Patient | ||||
| 2 | carry | present | Bees not said here | pollen | flower to flower | on bees's hairy bodies | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent pollen=Theme from flower=Initial_Location |
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:9.
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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