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title: Bees collect nectar and pollen from flowers; nectar is turned into h… — Bees and wasps in the garden · tree and pragmatics
description: Bees collect nectar and pollen from flowers; nectar is turned into honey and pollen feeds the young bees. Who acts: Bees, pollen. 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 every clause.
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# Bees and wasps in the garden, sentence 5

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Bees collect nectar and pollen from flowers; nectar is turned into honey and pollen feeds the young bees.

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**Who acts:** Bees, pollen · **What happens:** collect, turn, feed · **To what, where:** nectar, flowers, honey, young bees

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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 (Bees, pollen), 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:5
# text = Bees collect nectar and pollen from flowers; nectar is turned into honey and pollen feeds the young bees.
# 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	Bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	collect	collect	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	amod	_	_
3	nectar	nectar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	pollen	pollen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	nectar	nectar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	pollen	pollen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	feeds	feed	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **collect** | present | Bees | nectar and pollen |  | flowers |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent nectar=Theme from flower=Source |
| 2 | **turn** | present · passive |  | nectar |  | honey |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into honey=Trajectory |
| 3 | **feed** | present | pollen |  | the young bees |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bee=Recipient |

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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:5`.

**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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