Bees: the waggle dance, the hive and honey, sentence 15

Guard bees at the door smell each incoming bee to check it carries the hive's own smell, though a stranger bee bringing nectar is sometimes let in, as if she paid a toll.

Who acts: Guard bees, door, stranger bee, hive · What happens: smell, incoming, check, carry, bring, let in · To what, where: incoming bee, own smell, nectar, stranger bee, toll

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 (Guard bees, door, stranger bee, hive), 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	Guard	Guard	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 bees	compound
2	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 smell	nsubj
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 door	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 door	det
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bees	nmod
6	smell	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	9 bee	det
8	incoming	incoming	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 bee	amod
9	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 smell	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 check	mark
11	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 smell	advcl
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 carries	nsubj
13	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 check	ccomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hive	det
15	hive	hive	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 smell	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 hive	case
17	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 smell	amod
18	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 carries	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 let	punct
20	though	though	SCONJ	_	28 let	mark
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 bee	det
22	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bee	compound
23	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 let	nsubj:pass
24	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 bee	acl
25	nectar	nectar	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bringing	obj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 let	aux:pass
27	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	28 let	advmod
28	let	let	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 check	advcl
29	in	in	ADP	_	28 let	compound:prt
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 paid	punct
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 paid	mark
32	if	if	SCONJ	_	34 paid	mark
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 paid	nsubj
34	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 let	advcl
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 toll	det
36	toll	toll	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 paid	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 smell	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	smell	present	Guard bees at the door	each incoming bee		vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bee=Stimulus
2	incoming	gerund				tree rules
3	check	to-infinitive	Guard bees at the door not said here			tree rules
4	carry	present	door	the hive's own smell		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smell=Theme
5	bring	gerund	a stranger bee not said here	nectar		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent nectar=Theme
6	let in	present · passive		a stranger bee	sometimes property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
7	pay	past	hive	a toll		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toll=Asset
8	smell		the hive			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:239-bees-the-waggle-dance-the-hive-and-honey.lesson:15.

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 ×5, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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