--- title: Grasses and trees like birch and hazel are pollinated by the wind; t… — Flowers and pollination · tree and pragmatics description: Grasses and trees like birch and hazel are pollinated by the wind; they make huge amounts of light pollen and have small, green, unscented flowers. Who acts: wind, Grasses. A sentence of the lesson «Flowers and pollination» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # Flowers and pollination, sentence 9 Grasses and trees like birch and hazel are pollinated by the wind; they make huge amounts of light pollen and have small, green, unscented flowers. **Who acts:** wind, Grasses · **What happens:** pollinate, make, have, amount · **To what, where:** Grasses, huge amounts, small green unscented flowers, light pollen 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 (wind, Grasses), 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:9 # text = Grasses and trees like birch and hazel are pollinated by the wind; they make huge amounts of light pollen and have small, green, unscented flowers. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Grasses grass NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 4 like like ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 birch birch NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nmod 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 hazel hazel NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 pollinated pollinate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 10 by by ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:advcl 16 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 amounts amount NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 pollen pollen NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 23 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:conj 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 unscented unscent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pollinate** | present · passive | the wind | Grasses like birch and hazel and trees | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | present | Grasses *= grass* | huge amounts of light pollen | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset amount=Product | | 3 | **have** | present | Grasses *= grass* *not said here* | small green unscented flowers | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient | | 4 | **amount** | | | light pollen | | | | | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=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:9`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/58-flowers-and-pollination/8/) - next →: [Flowers and pollination, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/58-flowers-and-pollination/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/58-flowers-and-pollination/)