--- title: Bees and other pollinators carry pollen between flowers so fruit and… — The big biology quiz, part 3: dinosaurs, evoluti… · tree and pragmatics description: Bees and other pollinators carry pollen between flowers so fruit and seeds can form, and about a third of our food depends on pollinators; wild bees need flowers and fewer poisons. Who acts: Bees, fruit, third, wild bees. 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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 (Bees, fruit, third, wild bees), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:300-the-big-biology-quiz-part-3-dinosaurs-evolution-conservation-and-food.lesson:21 # text = Bees and other pollinators carry pollen between flowers so fruit and seeds can form, and about a third of our food depends on pollinators; wild bees need flowers and fewer poisons. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 300-the-big-biology-quiz-part-3-dinosaurs-evolution-conservation-and-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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Bees bee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 3 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 pollinators pollinator NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 5 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 pollen pollen NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 between between ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 9 so so SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 10 fruit fruit NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 13 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 form form VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 17 about about ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 third third NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 depends depend VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 24 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 pollinators pollinator NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 27 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 bees bee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 30 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 fewer few ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 33 amod _ _ 33 poisons poison NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 conj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **carry** | present | Bees and other pollinators | pollen | | | | between flowers | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pollen=Theme | | 2 | **form** | can | fruit and seeds | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **depend** | present | a third of our food | | | | | on pollinators | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on pollinator=Theme | | 4 | **need** | present | wild bees | flowers and fewer poisons | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot flower=Theme | 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:300-the-big-biology-quiz-part-3-dinosaurs-evolution-conservation-and-food.lesson:21`. **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 ×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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