Bees: the waggle dance, the hive and honey, sentence 7

Workers change jobs as they age: cleaning, feeding young, building wax, guarding and finally fetching food; a summer worker lives about five or six weeks.

Who acts: Workers, bees, summer worker · What happens: change, age, feed, guard, fetch, live · To what, where: jobs, young building wax, food

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 (Workers, bees, summer worker), 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	Workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 change	nsubj
2	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	jobs	job	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 change	obj
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 age	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 age	nsubj
6	age	age	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 change	advcl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 cleaning	punct
8	cleaning	cleaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 change	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 feeding	punct
10	feeding	feed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 cleaning	conj
11	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 wax	amod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 building	punct
13	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wax	compound
14	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 feeding	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 guarding	punct
16	guarding	guard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 feeding	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 fetching	cc
18	finally	finally	ADV	_	19 fetching	advmod
19	fetching	fetch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 guarding	conj
20	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fetching	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 lives	punct
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 worker	det
23	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 worker	compound
24	worker	worker	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lives	nsubj
25	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 change	parataxis
26	about	about	ADV	_	27 five	advmod
27	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 weeks	nummod
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 six	cc
29	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 five	conj
30	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 lives	obl:unmarked
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 change	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	change	present	Workers	jobs			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Patient
2	age	present	bees = bee				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	feed	gerund	Workers not said here	young building wax			vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wax=Recipient
4	guard	gerund	Workers not said here				vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
5	fetch	gerund	Workers not said here	food		finally property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme
6	live	present	a summer worker		week		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: 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:7.

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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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