Bees: the waggle dance, the hive and honey, sentence 16

The queen lays the eggs but gives no orders; she lays up to about 2,000 eggs a day in summer, and any female larva fed only royal jelly can become a queen.

Who acts: queen, female larva · What happens: lay, give, lay up, feed, become · To what, where: eggs, orders, royal jelly, queen

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 (queen, female larva), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 queen	det
2	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lays	nsubj
3	lays	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 eggs	det
5	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lays	obj
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 gives	cc
7	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lays	conj
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 orders	det
9	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 gives	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 lays	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 lays	nsubj
12	lays	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lays	parataxis
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 lays	compound:prt
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 eggs	case
15	about	about	ADV	_	16 2,000	advmod
16	2,000	2000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 eggs	nummod
17	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 lays	obl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 day	det
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lays	obl:unmarked
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 summer	case
21	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lays	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 become	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 become	cc
24	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	26 larva	det
25	female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 larva	amod
26	larva	larva	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 become	nsubj
27	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 larva	acl
28	only	only	ADV	_	30 jelly	advmod
29	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 jelly	amod
30	jelly	jelly	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fed	obj
31	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 become	aux
32	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lays	conj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 queen	det
34	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 become	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lays	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	lay	present	the queen	the eggs			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result
2	give	present	the queen not said here	no orders			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme
3	lay up	present	queen		day; summer	to 2,000 eggs	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	feed	participle	any female larva not said here	royal jelly			vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent jelly=Theme
5	become	can	any female larva	a queen			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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:16.

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 ×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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