--- title: Plants cannot walk to each other, so they hire couriers and pay them… — Flowers and pollination · tree and pragmatics description: Plants cannot walk to each other, so they hire couriers and pay them in food: a bumblebee visiting foxgloves drinks sweet nectar, and comes out with yellow pollen on its legs and furry body, ready for the next flower. Who acts: Plants, bumblebee. 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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 (Plants, bumblebee), 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:1 # text = Plants cannot walk to each other, so they hire couriers and pay them in food: a bumblebee visiting foxgloves drinks sweet nectar, and comes out with yellow pollen on its legs and furry body, ready for the next flower. # 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 ×2 1 Plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 4 obl _ _ 7 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 fixed _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 so so ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 hire hire VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 12 couriers courier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:iobj 16 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 : : PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 bumblebee bumblebee NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 21 visiting visit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 acl _ _ 22 foxgloves foxglove NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 23 drinks drink VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 24 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 nectar nectar NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 29 out out ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 30 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 pollen pollen NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 33 on on ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nmod _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 furry furry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 xcomp _ _ 41 for for ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **walk** | can | Plants | | | | | to each *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to each=Result | | 2 | **hire** | present | Plants *= plant* | couriers | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courier=Theme | | 3 | **pay** | infinitive | Plants *= plant* *not said here* | couriers *= courier* | | food | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Asset | | 4 | **visit** | gerund | a bumblebee *not said here* | foxgloves | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foxglove=Co-Agent | | 5 | **drink** | present | a bumblebee | sweet nectar | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nectar=Patient | | 6 | **come out** | present | a bumblebee *not said here* | | | | | with yellow pollen on pollen's legs and furry body; ready *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | 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:1`. **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 ×2. **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: [Flowers and pollination, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/58-flowers-and-pollination/0/) - next →: [Flowers and pollination, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/58-flowers-and-pollination/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/58-flowers-and-pollination/)