Bees: the waggle dance, the hive and honey, sentence 6
A hive can have about 50,000 bees: one queen, tens of thousands of female workers and some hundreds of males called drones.
Who acts: hive, males · What happens: have, call · To what, where: 50,000 bees, drones · 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 (hive, males), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 hive | det |
| 2 | hive | hive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 50,000 | advmod |
| 6 | 50,000 | 50,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 bees | nummod |
| 7 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | obj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 queen | punct |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 queen | nummod |
| 10 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bees | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tens | punct |
| 12 | tens | ten | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 bees | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 thousands | case |
| 14 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 tens | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 workers | case |
| 16 | female | female | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 workers | amod |
| 17 | workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 thousands | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 hundreds | cc |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 hundreds | det |
| 20 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 bees | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 males | case |
| 22 | males | male | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 hundreds | nmod |
| 23 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 males | acl |
| 24 | drones | drone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 called | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | can | a hive | 50,000 bees and tens of thousands of female workers and some hundreds of males | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bee=Patient | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | males not said here | drones | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:6.
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 ×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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