--- title: Many bees have become fewer because of lost wild flowers, some pesti… — Endangered animals and extinction · tree and pragmatics description: Many bees have become fewer because of lost wild flowers, some pesticides, disease and changing weather, which matters because about three quarters of the main food crops benefit from pollinators; there are around 20,000 kinds of bee, and most live alone in little holes, not in hives. 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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 (Many bees, weather, three quarters, 20,000 kinds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:077-endangered-animals-and-extinction.lesson:12 # text = Many bees have become fewer because of lost wild flowers, some pesticides, disease and changing weather, which matters because about three quarters of the main food crops benefit from pollinators; there are around 20,000 kinds of bee, and most live alone in little holes, not in hives. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 077-endangered-animals-and-extinction.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 bees bee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 become become VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 fewer few ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 xcomp _ _ 6 because because ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 6 fixed _ _ 8 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 9 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 13 det _ _ 13 pesticides pesticide NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 disease disease NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 changing change VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 conj _ _ 18 weather weather NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 21 matters matter VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 22 because because SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 23 about about ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 quarters quarter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 28 main main ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 29 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 crops crop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 31 benefit benefit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 32 from from ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 pollinators pollinator NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 34 ; ; PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 35 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 36 expl _ _ 36 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 37 around around ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 20,000 20000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ _ 39 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 bee bee NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ _ 42 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 44 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 45 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=45:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup 45 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 conj _ _ 46 alone alone ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 47 in in ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 holes hole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 obl _ _ 50 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 51 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 53 advmod _ _ 52 in in ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 53 hives hive NOUN NNS Number=Plur 49 conj _ _ 54 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **become** | present · perfect | Many bees | | | | | because lost wild flowers and some pesticides and disease; few *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **lose** | participle | | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **change** | gerund | Many bees *not said here* | weather | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weather=Patient | | 4 | **matter** | present | weather | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **benefit** | present | three quarters of the main food crops | | | pollinators | | | vn benefit-72.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Beneficiary from pollinator=Causer | | 6 | **be around** | present | 20,000 kinds of bee | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **live** | present | most | | | little holes and hives | | alone *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hole=Location | 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:077-endangered-animals-and-extinction.lesson:12`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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: [Endangered animals and extinction, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/77-endangered-animals-and-extinction/11/) - next →: [Endangered animals and extinction, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/77-endangered-animals-and-extinction/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/77-endangered-animals-and-extinction/)