Bees beyond the hive: bumblebees, solitary bees, carpenter bees and stingless bees, sentence 12

Red mason bees fill hollow stems with a row of cells, each with pollen and an egg, sealed by mud walls; eggs that become males are laid nearest the door, and the front bees come out first in spring.

Who acts: Red mason bees, eggs, front bees · What happens: fill, seal, become, lay, come out · To what, where: hollow stems, row, males, eggs

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 (Red mason bees, eggs, front bees), 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	Red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bees	amod
2	mason	mason	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bees	compound
3	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fill	nsubj
4	fill	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stems	amod
6	stems	stem	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fill	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 row	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 row	det
9	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fill	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 cells	case
11	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 row	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 each	punct
13	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 fill	obl
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 pollen	case
15	pollen	pollen	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 each	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 egg	cc
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 egg	det
18	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pollen	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sealed	punct
20	sealed	seal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 row	acl
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 walls	case
22	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 walls	compound
23	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 sealed	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 laid	punct
25	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 laid	nsubj:pass
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 become	nsubj
27	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 eggs	acl:relcl
28	males	male	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 become	xcomp
29	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 laid	aux:pass
30	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 fill	parataxis
31	nearest	nearest	ADP	_	33 door	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 door	det
33	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 laid	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 come	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 come	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 bees	det
37	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 bees	amod
38	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 come	nsubj
39	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 laid	conj
40	out	out	ADV	_	39 come	advmod
41	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	39 come	advmod
42	in	in	ADP	_	43 spring	case
43	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 come	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fill	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	fill	present	Red mason bees	hollow stems		with a row of cells; each obl	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent stem=Patient with row=Instrument
2	seal	participle		a row of cells not said here		by mud walls	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	become	present	eggs	males			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	lay	present · passive		eggs		nearest the door	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result
5	come out	present	the front bees		spring	first, out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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:305-bees-beyond-the-hive-bumblebees-solitary-bees-carpenter-bees-and-stingless-bees.lesson:12.

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. 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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