Bees: the waggle dance, the hive and honey, sentence 5
Karl von Frisch won a Nobel Prize in 1973 for working out the bee dance.
Who acts: Karl · What happens: win, work out · To what, where: Nobel Prize, 1973, bee dance
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 (Karl), 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 | Karl | Karl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 won | nsubj |
| 2 | von | von | PROPN | _ | 1 Karl | flat |
| 3 | Frisch | Frisch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Karl | flat |
| 4 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 Prize | det |
| 6 | Nobel | Nobel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Prize | compound |
| 7 | Prize | Prize | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 won | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 1973 | case |
| 9 | 1973 | 1973 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 won | obl |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 working | mark |
| 11 | working | work | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 won | advcl |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 working | compound:prt |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 dance | det |
| 14 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dance | compound |
| 15 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 working | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 won | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | past | Karl | a Nobel Prize | 1973 | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | work out | gerund | Karl not said here | the bee dance | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Topic |
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:5.
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): no change. 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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