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title: Bees can see ultraviolet light, which people cannot see; many flower… — Senses of animals: how they see, hear and smell · tree and pragmatics
description: Bees can see ultraviolet light, which people cannot see; many flowers have ultraviolet patterns that guide bees to the nectar. Who acts: Bees, people, many flowers, ultraviolet patterns. A sentence of the lesson «Senses of animals: how they see, hear and smell» of the world course of Mova's primary 
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# Senses of animals: how they see, hear and smell, sentence 8

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Bees can see ultraviolet light, which people cannot see; many flowers have ultraviolet patterns that guide bees to the nectar.

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**Who acts:** Bees, people, many flowers, ultraviolet patterns · **What happens:** see, not see, have, guide · **To what, where:** ultraviolet light, ultraviolet patterns, bees, nectar

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Senses of animals: how they see, hear and smell» 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, people, many flowers, ultraviolet patterns), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:079-senses-of-animals.lesson:8
# text = Bees can see ultraviolet light, which people cannot see; many flowers have ultraviolet patterns that guide bees to the nectar.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 079-senses-of-animals.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	ultraviolet	ultraviolet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
5	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obj	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:parataxis
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
16	ultraviolet	ultraviolet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
17	patterns	pattern	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	guide	guide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	nectar	nectar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **see** | can | Bees | ultraviolet light |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **see** | can | people | ultraviolet light |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |
| 3 | **have** | present | many flowers | ultraviolet patterns |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pattern=Patient |
| 4 | **guide** | present | ultraviolet patterns | bees |  | the nectar |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bee=Theme to nectar=Destination |

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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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**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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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.

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