Bees: the waggle dance, the hive and honey, sentence 8

Bees make honey from nectar by adding enzymes and fanning it with their wings until most of the water is gone, and it feeds them in winter.

Who acts: Bees, most, honey · What happens: make, add, fan, be, feed · To what, where: honey, nectar, enzymes, bees

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, most, honey), 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 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 nectar	case
5	nectar	nectar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obl
6	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 adding	mark
7	adding	add	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 make	advcl
8	enzymes	enzyme	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 adding	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 fanning	cc
10	fanning	fan	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 adding	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 fanning	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 wings	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 wings	nmod:poss
14	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 fanning	obl
15	until	until	SCONJ	_	21 gone	mark
16	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 gone	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 water	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 water	det
19	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 most	nmod
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 gone	cop
21	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fanning	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 feeds	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 feeds	cc
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 feeds	nsubj
25	feeds	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 make	conj
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 feeds	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 winter	case
28	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 feeds	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 make	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Bees	honey	nectar			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent honey=Product from nectar=Material
2	add speech: assert	gerund	Bees not said here	enzymes				vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enzyme=Patient
3	fan	gerund	Bees not said here	honey			with bees's wings	tree rules
4	is	present	most of the water				gone property	tree rules
5	feed	present	honey	bees = bee		winter		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

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:8.

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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