Bees beyond the hive: bumblebees, solitary bees, carpenter bees and stingless bees, sentence 0

When people say «bee» they often picture a honeybee hive, but there are about 20,000 kinds of bee and most of them live alone, each female building her own little nest.

Who acts: people, 20,000 kinds, most, female · What happens: say, picture, be about, live, build · To what, where: bee, honeybee hive, own little nest · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Bees beyond the hive: bumblebees, solitary bees, carpenter bees and stingless bees» 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 (people, 20,000 kinds, most, female), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 say	mark
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 say	nsubj
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 picture	advcl
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 bee	punct
5	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 say	obj
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 bee	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 picture	nsubj
8	often	often	ADV	_	9 picture	advmod
9	picture	picture	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 hive	det
11	honeybee	honeybee	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hive	compound
12	hive	hive	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 picture	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 are	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 are	cc
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 are	expl
16	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 picture	conj
17	about	about	ADV	_	18 20,000	advmod
18	20,000	20000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 kinds	nummod
19	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 are	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 bee	case
21	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 kinds	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 live	cc
23	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 live	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 most	nmod
26	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 picture	conj
27	alone	alone	ADV	_	26 live	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 building	punct
29	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	30 female	det
30	female	female	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 building	nsubj
31	building	build	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 live	advcl
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 nest	nmod:poss
33	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 nest	amod
34	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 nest	amod
35	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 building	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 picture	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	people	bee			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bee=Topic
2	picture	present	people	a honeybee hive		often property	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent hive=Theme
3	be about	present	20,000 kinds of bee		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	live	present	most of kinds			alone property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	build	gerund	each female	female's own little nest			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset nest=Product

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:305-bees-beyond-the-hive-bumblebees-solitary-bees-carpenter-bees-and-stingless-bees.lesson:0.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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