---
title: Bees are very important because they carry pollen between flowers an… — Bees, wasps and stings · tree and pragmatics
description: Bees are very important because they carry pollen between flowers and help plants make fruit and seeds. Who acts: Bees, plants. A sentence of the lesson «Bees, wasps and stings» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/24-bees-and-wasps/19/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Bees, wasps and stings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/24-bees-and-wasps/) / 19

# Bees, wasps and stings, sentence 19

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Bees are very important because they carry pollen between flowers and help plants make fruit and seeds.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Bees, plants · **What happens:** be, carry, help, make · **To what, where:** pollen, plants, fruit

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the lesson «Bees, wasps and stings» of the everyday 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 (Bees, plants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:024-bees-and-wasps.lesson:19
# text = Bees are very important because they carry pollen between flowers and help plants make fruit and seeds.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 024-bees-and-wasps.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 ×1
1	Bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
8	pollen	pollen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	between	between	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
13	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .note -->
No stored speech act for this sentence.

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Bees |  |  |  |  | important *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **carry** | present | Bees *= bee* | pollen |  |  |  | between flowers | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pollen=Theme |
| 3 | **help** | present | Bees *= bee* *not said here* | plants |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent plant=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | infinitive | plants *not said here* | fruit and seeds |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fruit=Product |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:024-bees-and-wasps.lesson:19`.

**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 ×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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Bees, wasps and stings, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/24-bees-and-wasps/18/)
- next →: [Bees, wasps and stings, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/24-bees-and-wasps/20/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/24-bees-and-wasps/)