Bees and wasps in the garden, sentence 18
All the worker bees in a honeybee hive are females; the males, called drones, do not collect food and have no sting.
Who acts: worker bees, males · What happens: be, call, not collect, have · To what, where: females, drones, food, sting · 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 (worker bees, males), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 bees | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bees | det |
| 3 | worker | worker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bees | compound |
| 4 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 females | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 hive | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hive | det |
| 7 | honeybee | honeybee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hive | compound |
| 8 | hive | hive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bees | nmod |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 females | cop |
| 10 | females | female | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 females | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 males | det |
| 13 | males | male | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 collect | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 males | punct |
| 15 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 males | acl |
| 16 | drones | drone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 called | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 males | punct |
| 18 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 collect | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 collect | advmod |
| 20 | collect | collect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 females | parataxis |
| 21 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 collect | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 have | cc |
| 23 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 collect | conj |
| 24 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 25 sting | det |
| 25 | sting | sting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 have | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 females | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | all worker bees in a honeybee hive | females | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | the males not said here | drones | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not collect | present · do-support | the males | food | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme | ||||
| 4 | have | present | the males not said here | no sting | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sting=Patient |
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:18.
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 ×1, 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.
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