Bees beyond the hive: bumblebees, solitary bees, carpenter bees and stingless bees, sentence 7

Bumblebees shiver their flight muscles to warm up, and their fur keeps the heat in, so they fly in cool weather; queen bumblebees are often the first bees seen in early spring.

Who acts: Bumblebees, fur, queen bumblebees · What happens: shiver, warm up, keep in, fly, be, see · To what, where: flight muscles, heat, cool weather, first bees

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 (Bumblebees, fur, queen bumblebees), 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	Bumblebees	bumblebee	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 shiver	nsubj
2	shiver	shiver	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 muscles	nmod:poss
4	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 muscles	compound
5	muscles	muscle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 shiver	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 warm	mark
7	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 shiver	advcl
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 warm	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 keeps	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 keeps	cc
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 fur	nmod:poss
12	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 keeps	nsubj
13	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 shiver	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 heat	det
15	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 keeps	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	13 keeps	compound:prt
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 fly	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	20 fly	advmod
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 fly	nsubj
20	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 shiver	parataxis
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 weather	case
22	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 weather	amod
23	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fly	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 bumblebees	punct
25	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bumblebees	compound
26	bumblebees	bumblebee	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 bees	nsubj
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 bees	cop
28	often	often	ADV	_	31 bees	advmod
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 bees	det
30	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	31 bees	amod
31	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 shiver	parataxis
32	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 bees	acl
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 spring	case
34	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 spring	amod
35	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 seen	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 shiver	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shiver	present	Bumblebees	Bumblebees's flight muscles				tree rules
2	warm up	to-infinitive	Bumblebees not said here					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	keep in	present	Bumblebees's fur	the heat				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Theme
4	fly	present	Bumblebees = bumblebee		cool weather			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in weather=Location
5	is a	present	queen bumblebees	the first bees			often property	tree rules
6	see	participle		the first bees not said here		spring		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: 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:7.

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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