--- title: A flower has petals, stamens that make pollen and a carpel in the mi… — Flowers and pollination · tree and pragmatics description: A flower has petals, stamens that make pollen and a carpel in the middle holding tiny ovules, which become seeds once pollen reaches the carpel. Who acts: flower, stamens, middle, tiny ovules. 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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, stamens, middle, tiny ovules), 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:5 # text = A flower has petals, stamens that make pollen and a carpel in the middle holding tiny ovules, which become seeds once pollen reaches the carpel. # 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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 petals petal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 stamens stamen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 7 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 pollen pollen NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 carpel carpel NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 16 holding hold VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 acl _ _ 17 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 ovules ovule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 21 become become VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 22 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 xcomp _ _ 23 once once SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 pollen pollen NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 reaches reach VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 carpel carpel NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 . . 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 | **have** | present | a flower | petals and stamens | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent petal=Patient | | 2 | **make** | present | stamens | pollen and a carpel | | the middle | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pollen=Product | | 3 | **hold** | gerund | the middle *not said here* | tiny ovules | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ovule=Theme | | 4 | **become** | present | tiny ovules | seeds | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **reach** | present | pollen | the carpel | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent carpel=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:5`. **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): no change. **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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/58-flowers-and-pollination/4/) - next →: [Flowers and pollination, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/58-flowers-and-pollination/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/58-flowers-and-pollination/)