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title: Dandelions and other early flowers are important food for bees in sp… — Bees and wasps in the garden · tree and pragmatics
description: Dandelions and other early flowers are important food for bees in spring, when few other flowers are open. Who acts: Dandelions, few other flowers. A sentence of the lesson «Bees and wasps in the garden» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Bees and wasps in the garden, sentence 10

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Dandelions and other early flowers are important food for bees in spring, when few other flowers are open.

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**Who acts:** Dandelions, few other flowers · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** important food

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bees and wasps in the garden» of the biology 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 (Dandelions, few other flowers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden.lesson:10
# text = Dandelions and other early flowers are important food for bees in spring, when few other flowers are open.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	Dandelions	dandelion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	19	mark	_	_
15	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	advcl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Dandelions and other early flowers | important food |  |  |  | for bees in spring | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | few other flowers |  |  |  |  | open *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:biology:218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden.lesson:10`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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