Bees: the waggle dance, the hive and honey, sentence 2

Bees turn flower nectar into honey to eat in winter, store it in six-sided wax cells and guard the door against robbers.

Who acts: Bees · What happens: turn, eat, store, guard · To what, where: flower nectar, honey, nectar, sided wax cells, door

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 (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	Bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 turn	nsubj
2	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nectar	compound
4	nectar	nectar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turn	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 honey	case
6	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turn	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 eat	mark
8	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 turn	advcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 winter	case
10	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eat	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 store	punct
12	store	store	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 turn	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 store	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	19 cells	case
15	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 sided	nummod
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 six	punct
17	sided	sided	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 cells	amod
18	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cells	compound
19	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 store	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 guard	cc
21	guard	guard	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 eat	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 door	det
23	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 guard	obj
24	against	against	ADP	_	25 robbers	case
25	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 guard	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 turn	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	Bees	flower nectar	honey			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent nectar=Theme into honey=Trajectory
2	eat	to-infinitive	Bees not said here			winter		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	store	infinitive	Bees not said here	nectar	sided wax cells			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in cell=Location
4	guard	infinitive	Bees not said here	the door			against robbers	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent door=Beneficiary against robber=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:2.

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 ×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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