Farms and where our food comes from, sentence 3

Bees and other insects pollinate many crops, such as apples, strawberries and almonds, so without them we would have much less fruit.

Who acts: Bees, we · What happens: pollinate, have · To what, where: many crops, less fruit

This is a sentence of the lesson «Farms and where our food comes from» 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, we), 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	5 pollinate	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 insects	cc
3	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 insects	amod
4	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Bees	conj
5	pollinate	pollinate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 crops	amod
7	crops	crop	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pollinate	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 apples	punct
9	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	11 apples	case
10	as	as	ADP	_	9 such	fixed
11	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 crops	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 strawberries	punct
13	strawberries	strawberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 apples	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 almonds	cc
15	almonds	almond	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 strawberries	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 have	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	22 have	advmod
18	without	without	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 have	obl
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 have	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 have	aux
22	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 pollinate	parataxis
23	much	much	ADV	_	24 less	advmod
24	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 fruit	amod
25	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 have	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 pollinate	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pollinate	present	Bees and other insects	many crops				such apples and strawberries and almonds	tree rules
2	have	would	we	less fruit				without crops = crop	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient

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:080-farms-and-our-food.lesson:3.

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, 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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