--- title: Bumblebees shake tomato flowers to release their pollen, which is ca… — The vegetable patch: peas, potatoes, tomatoes an… · tree and pragmatics description: Bumblebees shake tomato flowers to release their pollen, which is called buzz pollination, and greenhouse growers keep boxes of bumblebees to pollinate tomatoes. Who acts: Bumblebees, greenhouse growers. 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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 (Bumblebees, greenhouse growers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:338-the-vegetable-patch-peas-potatoes-tomatoes-and-slugs.lesson:12 # text = Bumblebees shake tomato flowers to release their pollen, which is called buzz pollination, and greenhouse growers keep boxes of bumblebees to pollinate tomatoes. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 338-the-vegetable-patch-peas-potatoes-tomatoes-and-slugs.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 Bumblebees bumblebee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 shake shake VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 tomato tomato NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 release release VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 7 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 pollen pollen NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj:pass _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl:relcl _ _ 13 buzz buzz NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 pollination pollination NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 xcomp _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 greenhouse greenhouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 growers grower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 20 boxes box NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 bumblebees bumblebee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 pollinate pollinate VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:xcomp 25 tomatoes tomato NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **shake** | present | Bumblebees | tomato flowers | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent flower=Patient | | 2 | **release** | to-infinitive | Bumblebees *not said here* | Scientists's pollen | | | | | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer pollen=Source | | 3 | **call** | present · passive | | Scientists's pollen | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 4 | **keep** | present | greenhouse growers | boxes of bumblebees | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme | | 5 | **pollinate** | to-infinitive | greenhouse growers *not said here* | tomatoes | | | | | tree rules | 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:338-the-vegetable-patch-peas-potatoes-tomatoes-and-slugs.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): 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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