--- title: A fig is a hollow ball of tiny flowers turned inwards, and wild figs… — Flowers and pollination · tree and pragmatics description: A fig is a hollow ball of tiny flowers turned inwards, and wild figs are pollinated by tiny fig wasps that crawl inside; the fig digests any wasp that dies in it, and many figs sold in shops grow without wasps at all. Who acts: fig, hollow ball, tiny fig wasps, wasp. A sentence of the lesson «Flower --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/58-flowers-and-pollination/14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Flowers and pollination](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/58-flowers-and-pollination/) / 14 # Flowers and pollination, sentence 14 A fig is a hollow ball of tiny flowers turned inwards, and wild figs are pollinated by tiny fig wasps that crawl inside; the fig digests any wasp that dies in it, and many figs sold in shops grow without wasps at all. **Who acts:** fig, hollow ball, tiny fig wasps, wasp, many figs · **What happens:** be, turn, pollinate, crawl, digest, die · **To what, where:** hollow ball, wild figs, wasp, many figs, shops This is a sentence of the lesson «Flowers and pollination» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fig, hollow ball, tiny fig wasps, wasp), 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:14 # text = A fig is a hollow ball of tiny flowers turned inwards, and wild figs are pollinated by tiny fig wasps that crawl inside; the fig digests any wasp that dies in it, and many figs sold in shops grow without wasps at all. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 fig fig NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 hollow hollow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 10 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 inwards inwards ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 figs fig NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 16 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 pollinated pollinate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 conj _ _ 18 by by ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 20 fig fig NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 wasps wasp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 22 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 23 crawl crawl VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 24 inside inside ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 fig fig NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 digests digest VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 29 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 30 det _ _ 30 wasp wasp NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 nsubj _ _ 32 dies die VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obl _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=28:punct 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 37 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 figs fig NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 nsubj _ _ 39 sold sell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 acl _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 shops shop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obl _ _ 42 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 43 without without ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 wasps wasp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 obl:agent _ _ 45 at at ADV RB _ 46 fixed _ _ 46 all all ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a fig | a hollow ball | | | | of tiny flowers | tree rules | | 2 | **turn** | past | a hollow ball | | | | | inwards *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **pollinate** | present · passive | tiny fig wasps | wild figs | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **crawl** | present | tiny fig wasps | | | | | inside *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **digest** | present | the fig | any wasp | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **die** | present | any wasp | | | | | in fig | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in it=Attribute | | 7 | **sell** | participle | | many figs *not said here* | | shops | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **grow** | present | many figs | | | | | all *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:058-flowers-and-pollination.lesson:14`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-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: [Flowers and pollination, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/58-flowers-and-pollination/13/) - next →: [Flowers and pollination, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/58-flowers-and-pollination/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/58-flowers-and-pollination/)