--- title: Every flower advertises to its own customers: bright colours and run… — Flowers and pollination · tree and pragmatics description: Every flower advertises to its own customers: bright colours and runway lines for bees, long red tubes for hummingbirds, pale petals and strong evening scent for moths, and even a stink of rotting meat for flies. Who acts: flower, rotting meat. A sentence of the lesson «Flowers and pollination» of t --- [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/2/) [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/) / 2 # Flowers and pollination, sentence 2 Every flower advertises to its own customers: bright colours and runway lines for bees, long red tubes for hummingbirds, pale petals and strong evening scent for moths, and even a stink of rotting meat for flies. **Who acts:** flower, rotting meat · **What happens:** advertise, rot, stink · **To what, where:** bright colours 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 (flower, rotting meat), 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:2 # text = Every flower advertises to its own customers: bright colours and runway lines for bees, long red tubes for hummingbirds, pale petals and strong evening scent for moths, and even a stink of rotting meat for flies. # 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 1 Every every DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 advertises advertise VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 customers customer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 9 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 colours colour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 runway runway NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 lines line NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 bees bee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos 18 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 tubes tube NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 hummingbirds hummingbird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 pale pale ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 petals petal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 27 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 scent scent NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 29 for for ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 moths moth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 even even ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 stink stink NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 rotting rot VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 38 amod _ _ 38 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 39 for for ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 flies fly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nmod _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **advertise** | present | every flower | bright colours and runway lines for bees and long red tubes for hummingbirds and pale petals and strong evening scent for moths and a stink of rotting meat for flies | | | | to flower's own customers | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot colour=Topic | | 2 | **rot** | gerund | | | | | | | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **stink** | | rotting meat | | | | | for flies | nom stink «cognition intransitive»: of=agent for=obl | 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:2`. **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. **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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/58-flowers-and-pollination/1/) - next →: [Flowers and pollination, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/58-flowers-and-pollination/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/58-flowers-and-pollination/)