Bees: the waggle dance, the hive and honey, sentence 13

Honeycomb cells are hexagons, which hold the most honey for the least wax, and wax is costly because bees eat a lot of honey to make it.

Who acts: Honeycomb cells, hexagons, wax, bees · What happens: be, hold, eat, make · To what, where: hexagons, most honey, lot

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 (Honeycomb cells, hexagons, wax, 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	Honeycomb	honeycomb	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cells	compound
2	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hexagons	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hexagons	cop
4	hexagons	hexagon	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hold	punct
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 hold	nsubj
7	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hexagons	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 honey	det
9	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 honey	amod
10	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hold	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	14 wax	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wax	det
13	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 wax	amod
14	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hold	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 costly	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 costly	cc
17	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 costly	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 costly	cop
19	costly	costly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hold	conj
20	because	because	SCONJ	_	22 eat	mark
21	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 eat	nsubj
22	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 costly	advcl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 lot	det
24	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 eat	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 honey	case
26	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lot	nmod
27	to	to	PART	_	28 make	mark
28	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 eat	advcl
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 make	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hexagons	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Honeycomb cells	hexagons		tree rules
2	hold	present	hexagons	the most honey	for the least wax	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honey=Theme
3	is	present	wax		costly property	tree rules
4	eat	present	bees	a lot of honey		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient
5	make	to-infinitive	bees not said here	lot		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

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:13.

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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