Bees and wasps in the garden, sentence 1

Back in the hive it does a little waggle dance, and the direction and length of the dance tell the other bees exactly where the flowers are.

Who acts: hive, direction, flowers · What happens: do, tell, be · To what, where: little waggle dance, other bees · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Bees and wasps in the garden» of the biology 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 (hive, direction, flowers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Back	back	ADV	_	6 does	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 hive	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hive	det
4	hive	hive	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dance	obl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 does	nsubj
6	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 dance	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 dance	amod
9	waggle	waggle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dance	compound
10	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 does	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tell	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 tell	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 direction	det
14	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tell	nsubj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 length	cc
16	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 direction	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 dance	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 dance	det
19	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 direction	nmod
20	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 dance	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 bees	det
22	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 bees	amod
23	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 tell	obj
24	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	25 where	advmod
25	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	20 tell	ccomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 flowers	det
27	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 where	nsubj
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 where	cop
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 dance	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	do	present	hive	a little waggle dance			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Eventuality
2	tell speech: assert	present	the direction of the dance and length		the other bees		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bee=Recipient
3	is	present	the flowers			exactly, where property	tree rules

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, 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:biology:218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden.lesson:1.

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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×5. 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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