Bees and wasps in the garden, sentence 6

A honeybee does a waggle dance in the hive; the angle and length of the dance tell other bees which way and how far to fly for food.

Who acts: honeybee, angle · What happens: do, tell, fly · To what, where: waggle dance, hive, way, 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 (honeybee, angle), 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	2 honeybee	det
2	honeybee	honeybee	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 does	nsubj
3	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 dance	det
5	waggle	waggle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dance	compound
6	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 does	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 hive	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hive	det
9	hive	hive	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 does	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 tell	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 angle	det
12	angle	angle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tell	nsubj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 length	cc
14	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 angle	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 dance	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 dance	det
17	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 angle	nmod
18	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 does	parataxis
19	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 bees	amod
20	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 tell	iobj
21	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	22 way	det
22	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tell	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 fly	cc
24	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	25 far	advmod
25	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 way	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 fly	mark
27	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 tell	conj
28	for	for	ADP	_	29 food	case
29	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fly	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 does	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	present	a honeybee	a waggle dance		the hive		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Eventuality
2	tell speech: assert	present	the angle of the dance and length	which way	other bees			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent bee=Recipient way=Topic
3	fly	to-infinitive	the angle of the dance and length not said here				for food	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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:6.

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 ×3, 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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