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title: In parts of Sichuan in China, after heavy pesticide use and the loss… — Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our… · tree and pragmatics
description: In parts of Sichuan in China, after heavy pesticide use and the loss of bees, workers pollinated pear trees by hand with brushes, which is slow and costly. Who acts: workers. A sentence of the lesson «Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our food» of the biology course of Mova's primary schoo
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# Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our food, sentence 12

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In parts of Sichuan in China, after heavy pesticide use and the loss of bees, workers pollinated pear trees by hand with brushes, which is slow and costly.

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**Who acts:** workers · **What happens:** pollinate, be · **To what, where:** pear trees, parts

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our food» 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 (workers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:291-bees-worms-and-soil-the-hidden-helpers-of-our-food.lesson:12
# text = In parts of Sichuan in China, after heavy pesticide use and the loss of bees, workers pollinated pear trees by hand with brushes, which is slow and costly.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 291-bees-worms-and-soil-the-hidden-helpers-of-our-food.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	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Sichuan	Sichuan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	after	after	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	pesticide	pesticide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
18	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	pollinated	pollinate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	pear	pear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	brushes	brush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	advcl:relcl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	costly	costly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	conj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	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 | **pollinate** | past | workers | pear trees |  | parts of Sichuan in China | after heavy pesticide use and the loss of bees | by hand; with brushes | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | slow *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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:291-bees-worms-and-soil-the-hidden-helpers-of-our-food.lesson:12`.

**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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