Bees: the waggle dance, the hive and honey, sentence 1

When a worker finds good flowers, she comes home and dances a figure of eight on the comb; the dance tells her sisters which way to fly and how far.

Who acts: worker, dance · What happens: find, come, dance, tell, fly · To what, where: good flowers, figure, comb, way, sisters · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Bees: the waggle dance, the hive and honey» 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, dance), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 finds	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 worker	det
3	worker	worker	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 finds	nsubj
4	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 comes	advcl
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 flowers	amod
6	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 finds	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 comes	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 comes	nsubj
9	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	home	home	ADV	_	9 comes	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 dances	cc
12	dances	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 comes	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 figure	det
14	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dances	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 eight	case
16	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 figure	nmod
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 comb	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 comb	det
19	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dances	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 tells	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 dance	det
22	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tells	nsubj
23	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 comes	parataxis
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 sisters	nmod:poss
25	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 tells	iobj
26	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	27 way	det
27	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tells	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 fly	mark
29	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 way	acl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 far	cc
31	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	32 far	advmod
32	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 fly	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 comes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	present	a worker	good flowers				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Topic
2	come	present	worker				home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	dance	present	worker not said here	a figure of eight		the comb		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location figure=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	present	the dance	which way	dance's sisters			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient way=Topic
5	fly	to-infinitive	the dance not said here	which way not said here				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:239-bees-the-waggle-dance-the-hive-and-honey.lesson:1.

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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