--- title: In buzz pollination a bumblebee vibrates its muscles to shake pollen… — Bees beyond the hive: bumblebees, solitary bees,… · tree and pragmatics description: In buzz pollination a bumblebee vibrates its muscles to shake pollen out of flowers like tomatoes, whose pollen is held in tubes; greenhouse tomato farmers often keep boxes of bumblebees. Who acts: bumblebee, tomato farmers. 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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 (bumblebee, tomato farmers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:305-bees-beyond-the-hive-bumblebees-solitary-bees-carpenter-bees-and-stingless-bees.lesson:9 # text = In buzz pollination a bumblebee vibrates its muscles to shake pollen out of flowers like tomatoes, whose pollen is held in tubes; greenhouse tomato farmers often keep boxes of bumblebees. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 305-bees-beyond-the-hive-bumblebees-solitary-bees-carpenter-bees-and-stingless-bees.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 buzz buzz NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 pollination pollination NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 bumblebee bumblebee NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 vibrates vibrate VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 muscles muscle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 shake shake VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:xcomp 11 pollen pollen NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 out out ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 15 like like ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 tomatoes tomato NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obl 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 pollen pollen NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 held hold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 tubes tube NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 greenhouse greenhouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 tomato tomato NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 farmers farmer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:conj 28 often often ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 30 boxes box NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 bumblebees bumblebee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **vibrate** | present | a bumblebee | pollination's muscles | | buzz pollination | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent muscle=Patient | | 2 | **shake** | to-infinitive | a bumblebee *not said here* | pollen | | flowers like tomatoes | | | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent pollen=Theme out flower=Trajectory | | 3 | **hold** | present · passive | | pollen | | tubes | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in tube=Location | | 4 | **keep** | present | tomato farmers | boxes of bumblebees | | | | often *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=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:305-bees-beyond-the-hive-bumblebees-solitary-bees-carpenter-bees-and-stingless-bees.lesson:9`. **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 ×3, 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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