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title: Every spring about two thirds of America's managed honeybee hives ar… — Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our… · tree and pragmatics
description: Every spring about two thirds of America's managed honeybee hives are carried on lorries to pollinate California's almond farms, one of the biggest pollination events in the world. A sentence of the lesson «Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our food» of the biology course of Mova's primary
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# Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our food, sentence 13

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Every spring about two thirds of America's managed honeybee hives are carried on lorries to pollinate California's almond farms, one of the biggest pollination events in the world.

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**What happens:** manage, carry, pollinate · **To what, where:** lorries, almond farms

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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: 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:13
# text = Every spring about two thirds of America's managed honeybee hives are carried on lorries to pollinate California's almond farms, one of the biggest pollination events in the world.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:nsubj:pass
3	about	about	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	thirds	third	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	_
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	managed	manage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
10	honeybee	honeybee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	hives	hive	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	lorries	lorry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	pollinate	pollinate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:xcomp
18	California	California	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	_
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	almond	almond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	farms	farm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	appos	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	28	amod	_	_
27	pollination	pollination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	events	event	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **manage** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **carry** | present · passive |  |  |  | lorries | spring |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP» |
| 3 | **pollinate** | to-infinitive |  | California's almond farms |  |  |  |  | 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:13`.

**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 ×2. **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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