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title: Bees and other insects pollinate many crops, such as apples, strawbe… — Farms and where our food comes from · tree and pragmatics
description: Bees and other insects pollinate many crops, such as apples, strawberries and almonds, so without them we would have much less fruit. Who acts: Bees, we. A sentence of the lesson «Farms and where our food comes from» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Farms and where our food comes from, sentence 3

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Bees and other insects pollinate many crops, such as apples, strawberries and almonds, so without them we would have much less fruit.

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**Who acts:** Bees, we · **What happens:** pollinate, have · **To what, where:** many crops, less fruit

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Farms and where our food comes from» 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, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:080-farms-and-our-food.lesson:3
# text = Bees and other insects pollinate many crops, such as apples, strawberries and almonds, so without them we would have much less fruit.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 080-farms-and-our-food.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	insects	insect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
5	pollinate	pollinate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
6	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	crops	crop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	11	case	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	strawberries	strawberry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	almonds	almond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
18	without	without	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
20	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
23	much	much	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	amod	_	_
25	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **pollinate** | present | Bees and other insects | many crops |  |  |  | such apples and strawberries and almonds | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | would | we | less fruit |  |  |  | without crops *= crop* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient |

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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:080-farms-and-our-food.lesson:3`.

**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, 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/).

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