Bees beyond the hive: bumblebees, solitary bees, carpenter bees and stingless bees, sentence 13

Leafcutter bees cut neat circles from leaves to wrap each egg and its food like a parcel; they do not eat the leaves, and the plant barely notices.

Who acts: Leafcutter bees, circles, plant · What happens: cut, wrap, not eat, notice · To what, where: neat circles, leaves, egg

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 (Leafcutter bees, circles, plant), 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	Leafcutter	leafcutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bees	compound
2	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cut	nsubj
3	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	neat	neat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 circles	amod
5	circles	circle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cut	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 leaves	case
7	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cut	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 wrap	mark
9	wrap	wrap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 cut	advcl
10	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	11 egg	det
11	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wrap	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 food	cc
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 food	nmod:poss
14	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 egg	conj
15	like	like	ADP	_	17 parcel	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 parcel	det
17	parcel	parcel	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wrap	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 eat	punct
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 eat	nsubj
20	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 eat	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 eat	advmod
22	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 wrap	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 leaves	det
24	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 eat	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 notices	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 notices	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 plant	det
28	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 notices	nsubj
29	barely	barely	ADV	_	30 notices	advmod
30	notices	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 eat	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cut	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cut	present	Leafcutter bees	neat circles	leaves		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent circle=Product from leaf=Material
2	wrap	to-infinitive	Leafcutter bees not said here	each egg and egg's food		like a parcel	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent egg=Theme
3	not eat	present · do-support	circles = circle	the leaves			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient
4	notice	present	the plant			barely property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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:13.

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, 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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