--- title: Grasses and many trees are pollinated by the wind and have small, du… — Flowers, pollination and how seeds travel · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: wind, Grasses, most. 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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 (wind, Grasses, most), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:023-flowers-and-seeds.lesson:10 # text = 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. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 023-flowers-and-seeds.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 Grasses grass NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 3 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 pollinated pollinate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 by by ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 12 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 14 dull dull ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 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 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 24 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 amounts amount NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 26 because because SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 27 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 30 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:JJS:PronType=Ind 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nmod _ _ 30 blows blow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 31 away away ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 34 reaches reach VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 35 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 36 det _ _ 36 flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 and many trees | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | present | the wind *not said here* | small dull flowers | | | | with lots of light pollen | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient | | 3 | **make** | present | Grasses *= grass* | huge amounts | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset amount=Product | | 4 | **blow away** | present | most of pollen | | | | | away *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **not** **reach** | present | most of pollen *not said here* | another flower | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent flower=Theme | 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:world:023-flowers-and-seeds.lesson:10`. **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: [Flowers, pollination and how seeds tra…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/23-flowers-and-seeds/9/) - next →: [Flowers, pollination and how seeds tra…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/23-flowers-and-seeds/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/23-flowers-and-seeds/)