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title: Bees feed on nectar and pollen, and carry pollen from flower to flow… — Flowers, pollination and how seeds travel · tree and pragmatics
description: Bees feed on nectar and pollen, and carry pollen from flower to flower on their hairy bodies. Who acts: Bees. A sentence of the lesson «Flowers, pollination and how seeds travel» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Flowers, pollination and how seeds travel, sentence 9

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Bees feed on nectar and pollen, and carry pollen from flower to flower on their hairy bodies.

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**Who acts:** Bees · **What happens:** feed, carry · **To what, where:** pollen, flower

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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 (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:9
# text = Bees feed on nectar and pollen, and carry pollen from flower to flower on their hairy bodies.
# 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	Bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	feed	feed	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	nectar	nectar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	pollen	pollen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	pollen	pollen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	hairy	hairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
19	.	.	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 | **feed** | present | Bees |  |  |  |  | on nectar and pollen | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on nectar=Patient |
| 2 | **carry** | present | Bees *not said here* | pollen |  | flower to flower |  | on bees's hairy bodies | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent pollen=Theme from flower=Initial\_Location |

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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:9`.

**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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