Bees and wasps in the garden, sentence 12
A honeybee queen can lay up to about two thousand eggs a day, and the worker bees feed and care for the young.
Who acts: honeybee queen, worker bees · What happens: lay up, feed, care
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 (honeybee queen, worker bees), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 queen | det |
| 2 | honeybee | honeybee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 queen | compound |
| 3 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lay | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 lay | aux |
| 5 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 lay | compound:prt |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 eggs | case |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 10 thousand | advmod |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 thousand | compound |
| 10 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 eggs | nummod |
| 11 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lay | obl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 day | det |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 eggs | nmod:unmarked |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 feed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 feed | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bees | det |
| 17 | worker | worker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bees | compound |
| 18 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 feed | nsubj |
| 19 | feed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 lay | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 care | cc |
| 21 | care | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 feed | conj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 young | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 young | det |
| 24 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 care | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay up | can | a honeybee queen | to thousand eggs a day | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | feed | present | the worker bees | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | care | present | the worker bees not said here | for the young | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for young=Theme |
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:12.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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.
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