--- title: Hummingbirds drink nectar from long tube-shaped flowers and get poll… — Flowers and pollination · tree and pragmatics description: Hummingbirds drink nectar from long tube-shaped flowers and get pollen on their heads; their wings beat about 50 to 80 times a second. Who acts: Hummingbirds, wings. 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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 (Hummingbirds, wings), 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:8 # text = Hummingbirds drink nectar from long tube-shaped flowers and get pollen on their heads; their wings beat about 50 to 80 times a second. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Hummingbirds hummingbird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 drink drink VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 nectar nectar NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 5 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 6 tube tube NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ _ 8 shaped shape VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 9 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 12 pollen pollen NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 13 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 17 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 beat beat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 20 about about ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 50 50 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 80 80 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 nmod _ _ 24 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl:unmarked _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 24 amod _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drink** | present | Hummingbirds | nectar | | long shaped flowers | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nectar=Patient | | 2 | **shape** | participle | | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **get** | present | Hummingbirds *not said here* | pollen | | hummingbirds's heads | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent pollen=Theme on head=Source | | 4 | **beat about** | present | hummingbirds's wings | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «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:8`. **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): R8-pos-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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/58-flowers-and-pollination/5/) - next →: [Flowers and pollination, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/58-flowers-and-pollination/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/58-flowers-and-pollination/)