Bees beyond the hive: bumblebees, solitary bees, carpenter bees and stingless bees, sentence 17

Bees have four wings, but a row of tiny hooks joins each front wing to the back wing in flight, so each pair works like one big wing.

Who acts: Bees, row, pair · What happens: have, join, work · To what, where: four wings, front wing

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 (Bees, row, pair), 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	Bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 wings	nummod
4	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 joins	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 joins	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 row	det
8	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 joins	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 hooks	case
10	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hooks	amod
11	hooks	hook	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 row	nmod
12	joins	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 have	conj
13	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	15 wing	det
14	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 wing	amod
15	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 joins	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	19 wing	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 wing	det
18	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wing	compound
19	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 joins	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 flight	case
21	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wing	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 works	punct
23	so	so	ADV	_	26 works	advmod
24	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	25 pair	det
25	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 works	nsubj
26	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 have	parataxis
27	like	like	ADP	_	30 wing	case
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 wing	nummod
29	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 wing	amod
30	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 works	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	Bees	four wings		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient
2	join	present	a row of tiny hooks	each front wing	to the back wing in flight	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent wing=Patient to wing=Co-Patient
3	work	present	each pair		like one big wing	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:17.

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, R6-punct-agree ×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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