--- title: Flowers, pollination and how seeds travel — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Flowers, pollination and how seeds travel», a lesson of the world course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A flower is how a plant makes seeds. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/23-flowers-and-seeds/) [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/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / Flowers, pollination and how seeds tra… # Flowers, pollination and how seeds travel Lesson 23 of the world course of Mova's primary school: 15 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/world/23-flowers-and-seeds/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/23-flowers-and-seeds/0/) — A flower is how a plant makes seeds. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/23-flowers-and-seeds/1/) — In its middle are the stamens, which make a fine powder called pollen, and the pistil, which holds tiny eggs called ovules. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/23-flowers-and-seeds/2/) — Pollination happens when pollen gets carried from the stamens to the sticky top of a pistil, usually of another flower of the same kind; bees, butterflies, birds and the wind carry it. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/23-flowers-and-seeds/3/) — After pollination, the pollen and the ovule join (fertilisation), the ovule becomes a seed, and the part around it grows into a fruit. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/23-flowers-and-seeds/4/) — Seeds must travel away from their parent, so the young plants do not compete with it for light and water: dandelion seeds fly on little parachutes, burdock burrs hook onto fur, coconuts float, and berries are eaten by birds and dropped far away. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/23-flowers-and-seeds/5/) — Stamens are the parts of a flower that make pollen. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/23-flowers-and-seeds/7/) — Pollination is the carrying of pollen to the pistil of a flower. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/23-flowers-and-seeds/8/) — Bright petals, scent and nectar, a sweet sugary juice, attract insects that carry pollen. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/23-flowers-and-seeds/9/) — Bees feed on nectar and pollen, and carry pollen from flower to flower on their hairy bodies. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/23-flowers-and-seeds/10/) — Grasses and many trees are pollinated by the wind and have small, dull flowers with lots of light pollen; they make huge amounts because most of it blows away and never reaches another flower. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/23-flowers-and-seeds/11/) — After fertilisation the ovules become seeds and the flower's ovary, the swollen bottom part of the pistil, grows into a fruit. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/23-flowers-and-seeds/12/) — Seeds travel away from the parent plant so that young plants have room, light and water. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/23-flowers-and-seeds/13/) — Some seeds are carried by the wind, like dandelion and maple seeds. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/23-flowers-and-seeds/14/) — Some seeds hook onto animals' fur, like burdock burrs. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/23-flowers-and-seeds/16/) — Some seeds float on water, like coconuts, and some are shot out when the pod bursts open, like peas and some beans. - ← previous: [How plants make their food](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/22-photosynthesis/) - next →: [Groups of animals and how to tell them apart](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/24-animal-groups/) - ↑ back to [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/)