Bees beyond the hive: bumblebees, solitary bees, carpenter bees and stingless bees, sentence 14

Carpenter bees chew tunnels in wood for their nests and push the sawdust out instead of eating it; the violet carpenter bee is one of Europe's biggest bees and has been reported spreading into Britain.

Who acts: Carpenter bees, violet carpenter bee · What happens: chew, push out, eat, be, report, spread · To what, where: tunnels, wood, sawdust, one, Britain

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 (Carpenter bees, violet carpenter bee), 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	Carpenter	carpenter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bees	compound
2	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 chew	nsubj
3	chew	chew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	tunnels	tunnel	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 chew	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 wood	case
6	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tunnels	nmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 nests	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 nests	nmod:poss
9	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 chew	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 push	cc
11	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 chew	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sawdust	det
13	sawdust	sawdust	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 push	obj
14	out	out	ADP	_	11 push	compound:prt
15	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	17 eating	mark
16	of	of	ADP	_	15 instead	fixed
17	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 push	advcl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 eating	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 one	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 bee	det
21	violet	violet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 bee	amod
22	carpenter	carpenter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bee	compound
23	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 one	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 one	cop
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 chew	parataxis
26	of	of	ADP	_	30 bees	case
27	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 bees	nmod:poss
28	's	's	PART	_	27 Europe	case
29	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 bees	amod
30	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 one	nmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 reported	cc
32	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 reported	aux
33	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 reported	aux:pass
34	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 one	conj
35	spreading	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 reported	xcomp
36	into	into	ADP	_	37 Britain	case
37	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 spreading	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 chew	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	chew	present	Carpenter bees	tunnels	wood	for tunnels's nests	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tunnel=Patient
2	push out	infinitive	Carpenter bees not said here	the sawdust			vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sawdust=Theme
3	eat	gerund	Carpenter bees not said here	sawdust			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	is a	present	the violet carpenter bee	one		of Europe's biggest bees	tree rules
5	report	present · perfect · passive	the violet carpenter bee not said here				vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: clause=Theme
6	spread	gerund	the violet carpenter bee not said here		Britain		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into britain=Destination

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:14.

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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