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title: Bees see ultraviolet light, and many flowers have ultraviolet patter… — Hidden senses: magnetic birds and turtles, ultra… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bees see ultraviolet light, and many flowers have ultraviolet patterns that guide them to the nectar; bees see red poorly, so many bright red flowers are pollinated by birds instead. Who acts: Bees, many flowers, ultraviolet patterns, birds. A sentence of the lesson «Hidden senses: magnetic birds an
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# Hidden senses: magnetic birds and turtles, ultraviolet bees, heat-seeing snakes, whiskers and lateral lines, sentence 9

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Bees see ultraviolet light, and many flowers have ultraviolet patterns that guide them to the nectar; bees see red poorly, so many bright red flowers are pollinated by birds instead.

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**Who acts:** Bees, many flowers, ultraviolet patterns, birds · **What happens:** see, have, guide, pollinate · **To what, where:** ultraviolet light, ultraviolet patterns, lights, nectar, many bright red flowers

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Hidden senses: magnetic birds and turtles, ultraviolet bees, heat-seeing snakes, whiskers and lateral lines» 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, many flowers, ultraviolet patterns, birds), 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:9
# text = Bees see ultraviolet light, and many flowers have ultraviolet patterns that guide them to the nectar; bees see red poorly, so many bright red flowers are pollinated by birds instead.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×3
1	Bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	ultraviolet	ultraviolet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	ultraviolet	ultraviolet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
11	patterns	pattern	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	guide	guide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	nectar	nectar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
21	red	red	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	poorly	poorly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
25	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
26	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	pollinated	pollinate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:conj
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
33	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
34	.	.	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 | **see** | present | Bees | ultraviolet light |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus |
| 2 | **have** | present | many flowers | ultraviolet patterns |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pattern=Patient |
| 3 | **guide** | present | ultraviolet patterns | lights *= light* |  | the nectar |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to nectar=Destination |
| 4 | **see** | present | bees |  |  |  |  | poorly, red *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **pollinate** | present · passive | birds | many bright red flowers |  |  |  | instead *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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**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): R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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