--- title: A flower is not there to look pretty for us: its job is to make seed… — Flowers and pollination · tree and pragmatics description: A flower is not there to look pretty for us: its job is to make seeds, and for that, pollen from the stamens must reach the carpel in the middle, usually of another flower of the same kind; that delivery is pollination. Who acts: flower, job, pollen, delivery. 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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 (flower, job, pollen, delivery), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:058-flowers-and-pollination.lesson:0 # text = A flower is not there to look pretty for us: its job is to make seeds, and for that, pollen from the stamens must reach the carpel in the middle, usually of another flower of the same kind; that delivery is pollination. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 058-flowers-and-pollination.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 ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 8 pretty pretty ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 12 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 17 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 28 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 23 pollen pollen NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 24 from from ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 stamens stamen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ _ 27 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 carpel carpel NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 usually usually ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 38 det _ _ 38 flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:nmod 39 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 43 ; ; PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 44 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 45 det _ _ 45 delivery delivery NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=47:compound 46 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 47 cop _ _ 47 pollination pollination NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | present | a flower | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **look** | to-infinitive | a flower *not said here* | | | | | for us; pretty *property* | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for we=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | flower's job | | | | | make *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **reach** | must | pollen from the stamens | the carpel | | the middle | | for that; of another flower of the same kind; usually *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent carpel=Theme for that=Beneficiary | | 5 | **is a** | present | that delivery | pollination | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **job** | | flower | | | | | | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:058-flowers-and-pollination.lesson:0`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Roots, stems and leaves, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/57-roots-stems-and-leaves/16/) - next →: [Flowers and pollination, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/58-flowers-and-pollination/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/58-flowers-and-pollination/)