Bees: the waggle dance, the hive and honey, sentence 11
A swarm is the old queen with about half the workers looking for a new home; scouts dance for places and the swarm picks the one with most supporters; a swarm hanging on a branch is usually calm, and a beekeeper can collect it.
Who acts: swarm, workers, scouts, beekeeper · What happens: be, look, dance, pick, hang, collect · To what, where: old queen, one, branch, swarm
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 (swarm, workers, scouts, beekeeper), 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 swarm | det |
| 2 | swarm | swarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 queen | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 queen | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 queen | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 queen | amod |
| 6 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 workers | case |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 half | advmod |
| 9 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 11 workers | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 workers | det |
| 11 | workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 queen | nmod |
| 12 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 workers | acl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 home | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 home | det |
| 15 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 home | amod |
| 16 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 looking | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 dance | punct |
| 18 | scouts | scout | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 dance | nsubj |
| 19 | dance | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 queen | parataxis |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 places | case |
| 21 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 dance | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 picks | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 swarm | det |
| 24 | swarm | swarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 picks | nsubj |
| 25 | picks | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 dance | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 one | det |
| 27 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 picks | obj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 supporters | case |
| 29 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 30 supporters | amod |
| 30 | supporters | supporter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 one | nmod |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 calm | punct |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 swarm | det |
| 33 | swarm | swarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 calm | nsubj |
| 34 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 swarm | acl |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 37 branch | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 branch | det |
| 37 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 hanging | obl |
| 38 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 calm | cop |
| 39 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 40 calm | advmod |
| 40 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 picks | parataxis |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 collect | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 collect | cc |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 beekeeper | det |
| 44 | beekeeper | beekeeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 collect | nsubj |
| 45 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 collect | aux |
| 46 | collect | collect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 calm | conj |
| 47 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 collect | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 queen | 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 swarm | the old queen | with half workers | tree rules | |||
| 2 | look | gerund | half workers not said here | for a new home | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for home=Theme | ||||
| 3 | dance | present | scouts | for places | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | pick | present | the swarm | the one | with most supporters | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | |||
| 5 | hang | gerund | a swarm not said here | a branch | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on branch=Location | ||||
| 6 | is | present | a swarm | calm, usually property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | collect | can | a beekeeper | swarm | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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.
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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 ×4. 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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