Bees and wasps in the garden, sentence 9
Beekeepers wear a suit and veil and puff smoke at the hive; smoke hides the bees' alarm smell and makes them eat honey, so they stay calm.
Who acts: Beekeepers, smoke, suit, bees · What happens: wear, puff, hide, make, eat, stay · To what, where: suit, hive, alarm smell, 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 (Beekeepers, smoke, suit, 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 | Beekeepers | beekeeper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 wear | nsubj |
| 2 | wear | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 suit | det |
| 4 | suit | suit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wear | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 veil | cc |
| 6 | veil | veil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 suit | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 smoke | cc |
| 8 | puff | puff | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 wear | conj |
| 9 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 suit | conj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 hive | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hive | det |
| 12 | hive | hive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 suit | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 hides | punct |
| 14 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hides | nsubj |
| 15 | hides | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 wear | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bees | det |
| 17 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 smell | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 17 bees | case |
| 19 | alarm | alarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 smell | compound |
| 20 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hides | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 makes | cc |
| 22 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 hides | conj |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 makes | obj |
| 24 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 makes | xcomp |
| 25 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 eat | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 stay | punct |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 stay | advmod |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 stay | nsubj |
| 29 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 wear | conj |
| 30 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 stay | xcomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wear | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | present | Beekeepers | a suit and veil and smoke | the hive | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent suit=Theme | |||
| 2 | puff | present | Beekeepers not said here | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | |||||
| 3 | hide | present | smoke | the bees's alarm smell | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smell=Patient | ||||
| 4 | make | present | smoke not said here | suit | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | eat | infinitive | suit not said here | honey | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honey=Patient | ||||
| 6 | stay | present | Beekeepers = beekeeper | calm property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | smell | the bees | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
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:9.
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. 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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