--- title: Worms keep soil healthy, bees pollinate flowers (carry pollen from f… — Safe and kind in gardens and forests · tree and pragmatics description: Worms keep soil healthy, bees pollinate flowers (carry pollen from flower to flower so seeds and fruit can grow), and trees shelter birds and insects, so we treat them gently. Who acts: Worms, bees, seeds, trees. 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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 (Worms, bees, seeds, trees), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:229-gardens-and-forests.lesson:3 # text = Worms keep soil healthy, bees pollinate flowers (carry pollen from flower to flower so seeds and fruit can grow), and trees shelter birds and insects, so we treat them gently. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 229-gardens-and-forests.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 Worms worm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 healthy healthy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 bees bee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 pollinate pollinate VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 8 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct 10 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 parataxis _ _ 11 pollen pollen NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 from from ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 17 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=17:cc 19 fruit fruit NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 20 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ _ 22 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 shelter shelter VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 27 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 conj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 so so ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 32 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 treat treat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 34 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 gently gently ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 36 . . 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 | **keep** | present | Worms | soil | | | | healthy *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Theme | | 2 | **pollinate** | present | bees | flowers | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **carry** | infinitive | | pollen | | flower | | to flower | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent pollen=Theme from flower=Initial\_Location to flower=Destination | | 4 | **grow** | can | seeds and fruit | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **shelter** | present | trees | birds and insects | | | | | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient | | 6 | **treat** | present | we | birds *= bird* | | | | gently *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | 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:everyday:229-gardens-and-forests.lesson:3`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-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: [Safe and kind in gardens and forests, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/229-gardens-and-forests/2/) - next →: [Safe and kind in gardens and forests, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/229-gardens-and-forests/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/229-gardens-and-forests/)