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title: Pollination happens when pollen gets carried from the stamens to the… — Flowers, pollination and how seeds travel · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: Pollination, bees. A sentence of the lesson «Flowers, pollination and how seeds travel» of the world cour
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# Flowers, pollination and how seeds travel, sentence 2

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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.

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**Who acts:** Pollination, bees · **What happens:** happen, carry · **To what, where:** pollen, stamens

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Flowers, pollination and how seeds travel» of the world 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 (Pollination, bees), 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:2
# text = 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.
# 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): no change
1	Pollination	pollination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
4	pollen	pollen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	gets	get	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	stamens	stamen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	sticky	sticky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	pistil	pistil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
27	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
35	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | present | Pollination |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **carry** | present · passive |  | pollen |  | the stamens |  | to the sticky top of a pistil and another flower of the same kind | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: subject=Theme from stamen=Initial\_Location to top=Destination |
| 3 | **carry** | infinitive | bees and butterflies and birds and the wind | pollen |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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.

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**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:2`.

**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): no change. **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/).

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