Bees and wasps in the garden, sentence 2
A honeybee hive is one big family: one queen lays the eggs, thousands of worker sisters do the work, and the nectar they bring is turned into honey, food for the winter.
Who acts: honeybee hive, one queen, thousands · What happens: be, lay, do, bring, turn · To what, where: one big family, eggs, work, nectar, honey
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 hive, one queen, thousands), 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 hive | det |
| 2 | honeybee | honeybee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hive | compound |
| 3 | hive | hive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 family | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 family | cop |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 family | nummod |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 family | amod |
| 7 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 lays | punct |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 queen | nummod |
| 10 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lays | nsubj |
| 11 | lays | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 family | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 eggs | det |
| 13 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 lays | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 do | punct |
| 15 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 do | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 sisters | case |
| 17 | worker | worker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sisters | compound |
| 18 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 thousands | nmod |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 lays | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 work | det |
| 21 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 do | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 turned | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 turned | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 nectar | det |
| 25 | nectar | nectar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 turned | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 bring | nsubj |
| 27 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 nectar | acl:relcl |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 turned | aux:pass |
| 29 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 family | conj |
| 30 | into | into | ADP | _ | 31 honey | case |
| 31 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 turned | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 food | punct |
| 33 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 honey | conj |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 winter | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 winter | det |
| 36 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 honey | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 family | 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 | a honeybee hive | one big family | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lay | present | one queen | the eggs | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result | ||||
| 3 | do | present | thousands of worker sisters | the work | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | bring | present | thousands = thousand | the nectar not said here | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent nectar=Theme | ||||
| 5 | turn | present · passive | the nectar | honey for the winter and food | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into honey=Trajectory |
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:2.
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): 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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