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title: Flowers make seeds after pollination by bees, wind or birds, and the… — The big biology quiz, part 2: plants, the body a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Flowers make seeds after pollination by bees, wind or birds, and the fruit grows around the seeds to help spread them. Who acts: Flowers, fruit, bees. A sentence of the lesson «The big biology quiz, part 2: plants, the body and microbes» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depend
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# The big biology quiz, part 2: plants, the body and microbes, sentence 6

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Flowers make seeds after pollination by bees, wind or birds, and the fruit grows around the seeds to help spread them.

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**Who acts:** Flowers, fruit, bees · **What happens:** make, grow, help, spread, pollinate · **To what, where:** seeds, Flowers

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The big biology quiz, part 2: plants, the body and microbes» 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 (Flowers, fruit, bees), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:299-the-big-biology-quiz-part-2-plants-the-body-and-microbes.lesson:6
# text = Flowers make seeds after pollination by bees, wind or birds, and the fruit grows around the seeds to help spread them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 299-the-big-biology-quiz-part-2-plants-the-body-and-microbes.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	pollination	pollination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nmod
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:appos
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	around	around	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:acl
22	spread	spread	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	.	.	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 | **make** | present | Flowers | seeds |  |  | after pollination by bees and wind or birds |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset seed=Product |
| 2 | **grow** | present | the fruit |  |  | the seeds |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around seed=Location |
| 3 | **help** | to-infinitive | the fruit *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **spread** | infinitive | the fruit *not said here* | Flowers *= flower* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme |
| 5 | **pollinate** |  | bees and wind or birds |  |  |  |  |  | nom pollination «event transitive»: by=agent |

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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:299-the-big-biology-quiz-part-2-plants-the-body-and-microbes.lesson:6`.

**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 ×2, 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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