--- title: A bee looking at a plain yellow flower sees a bright pattern pointin… — Hidden senses: magnetic birds and turtles, ultra… · tree and pragmatics description: A bee looking at a plain yellow flower sees a bright pattern pointing to the nectar, like the lit-up arrows that guide a plane onto a runway at night. Who acts: bee, bright pattern, up arrows. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bee, bright pattern, up arrows), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:232-hidden-senses-magnetic-birds-ultraviolet-bees-heat-seeing-snakes.lesson:2 # text = A bee looking at a plain yellow flower sees a bright pattern pointing to the nectar, like the lit-up arrows that guide a plane onto a runway at night. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 232-hidden-senses-magnetic-birds-ultraviolet-bees-heat-seeing-snakes.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 bee bee NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 3 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 plain plain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 sees see VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 pattern pattern NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 pointing pointing VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 acl _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 nectar nectar NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:nmod 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 like like ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 20 lit lit NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ _ 22 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 arrows arrow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 appos _ _ 24 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 25 guide guide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 plane plane NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 onto onto ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 runway runway NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 31 at at ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:nmod 33 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | gerund | a bee *not said here* | | | | | at a plain yellow flower | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at flower=Theme | | 2 | **see** | present | a bee | a bright pattern | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pattern=Stimulus | | 3 | **pointing** | gerund | a bright pattern *not said here* | | | | | to the nectar | tree rules | | 4 | **guide** | present | the up arrows | a plane | | a runway | night | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent plane=Theme onto runway=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](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:232-hidden-senses-magnetic-birds-ultraviolet-bees-heat-seeing-snakes.lesson:2`. **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 ×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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