Bees: the waggle dance, the hive and honey, sentence 4
The waggle dance shows the direction to the flowers by its angle from straight up, compared with the sun, so a waggle straight up means «fly towards the sun», and the distance by how long the waggle lasts.
Who acts: waggle dance, waggle · What happens: show, compare, mean, fly, last · To what, where: direction, flowers, sun · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (waggle dance, waggle), 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 | 3 dance | det |
| 2 | waggle | waggle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dance | compound |
| 3 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shows | nsubj |
| 4 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 direction | det |
| 6 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shows | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 flowers | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 flowers | det |
| 9 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 direction | nmod |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 angle | case |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 angle | nmod:poss |
| 12 | angle | angle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shows | obl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 straight | case |
| 14 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 15 up | advmod |
| 15 | up | up | ADV | _ | 17 compared | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 up | punct |
| 17 | compared | compare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 direction | acl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 sun | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sun | det |
| 20 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 compared | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 means | punct |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 means | advmod |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 waggle | det |
| 24 | waggle | waggle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 means | nsubj |
| 25 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 26 up | advmod |
| 26 | up | up | ADV | _ | 27 means | advmod |
| 27 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 shows | parataxis |
| 28 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 29 fly | punct |
| 29 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 means | xcomp |
| 30 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 32 sun | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 sun | det |
| 32 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fly | obl |
| 33 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 29 fly | punct |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 distance | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 distance | cc |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 distance | det |
| 37 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fly | conj |
| 38 | by | by | ADP | _ | 40 long | case |
| 39 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 40 long | advmod |
| 40 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 fly | advmod |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 waggle | det |
| 42 | waggle | waggle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 lasts | nsubj |
| 43 | lasts | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 long | advcl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | the waggle dance | the direction | the flowers | by direction's angle | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent direction=Topic to flower=Recipient | ||
| 2 | compare | participle | the direction not said here | with the sun | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with sun=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | a waggle | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | fly not said to happen, in a quote | infinitive | a waggle not said here | the sun | long property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards sun=Destination | |||
| 5 | last | present | the waggle | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=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:4.
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, R6-punct-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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