Senses of animals: how they see, hear and smell, sentence 8

Bees can see ultraviolet light, which people cannot see; many flowers have ultraviolet patterns that guide bees to the nectar.

Who acts: Bees, people, many flowers, ultraviolet patterns · What happens: see, not see, have, guide · To what, where: ultraviolet light, ultraviolet patterns, bees, nectar

This is a sentence of the lesson «Senses of animals: how they see, hear and smell» 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, people, many flowers, ultraviolet patterns), 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	3 see	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 see	aux
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	ultraviolet	ultraviolet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 light	amod
5	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 see	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 see	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 see	obj
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 see	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 see	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 see	advmod
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 light	acl:relcl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
13	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 flowers	amod
14	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 have	nsubj
15	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 see	parataxis
16	ultraviolet	ultraviolet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 patterns	amod
17	patterns	pattern	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 have	obj
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 guide	nsubj
19	guide	guide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 patterns	acl:relcl
20	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 guide	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 nectar	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 nectar	det
23	nectar	nectar	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 guide	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	see	can	Bees	ultraviolet light		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus
2	not see	can	people	ultraviolet light		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus
3	have	present	many flowers	ultraviolet patterns		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pattern=Patient
4	guide	present	ultraviolet patterns	bees	the nectar	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bee=Theme to nectar=Destination

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:079-senses-of-animals.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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