Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our food, sentence 11

Honey is made by many worker bees from the nectar they collect; it takes thousands of flower visits and weeks of work to fill a jar.

Who acts: many worker bees, Bees, it · What happens: make, collect, take, fill · To what, where: Honey, nectar, thousands, jar

This is a sentence of the lesson «Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our food» 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 (many worker bees, Bees, it), 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	Honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	7 bees	case
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bees	amod
6	worker	worker	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bees	compound
7	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	obl:agent
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 nectar	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 nectar	det
10	nectar	nectar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 collect	nsubj
12	collect	collect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 nectar	acl:relcl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 takes	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 takes	nsubj
15	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	parataxis
16	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 takes	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 visits	case
18	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 visits	compound
19	visits	visit	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 thousands	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 weeks	cc
21	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 visits	conj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 work	case
23	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 weeks	nmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 fill	mark
25	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 takes	advcl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 jar	det
27	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fill	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	make	present · passive	many worker bees	Honey	the nectar	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent subject=Product from nectar=Material
2	collect	present	Bees = bee	the nectar not said here		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nectar=Theme
3	take	present	it	thousands of flower visits and weeks of work		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Theme
4	fill	to-infinitive		a jar		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent jar=Patient

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:291-bees-worms-and-soil-the-hidden-helpers-of-our-food.lesson:11.

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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