The garden in spring: buds, frogspawn, queen bumblebees and nesting birds, sentence 8
A bumblebee sitting still on a cold day may be cold or out of energy; moving it onto a flower is the best help, a little sugar water can be offered once, and honey must never be given because it can carry bee diseases.
Who acts: bumblebee, moving · What happens: sit, be, move, offer, not give, carry · To what, where: bumblebee, flower, best help, little sugar water, honey, bee diseases
This is a sentence of the lesson «The garden in spring: buds, frogspawn, queen bumblebees and nesting birds» 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 (bumblebee, moving), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bumblebee | det |
| 2 | bumblebee | bumblebee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cold | nsubj |
| 3 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 bumblebee | acl |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 3 sitting | advmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 day | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 day | det |
| 7 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 day | amod |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sitting | obl |
| 9 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 cold | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 cold | cop |
| 11 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 energy | cc |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 energy | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 energy | case |
| 15 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cold | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 help | punct |
| 17 | moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 help | csubj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 moving | obj |
| 19 | onto | onto | ADP | _ | 21 flower | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 flower | det |
| 21 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 moving | obl |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 help | cop |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 help | det |
| 24 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 25 help | amod |
| 25 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cold | parataxis |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 offered | punct |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 water | det |
| 28 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 water | amod |
| 29 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 water | compound |
| 30 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 offered | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 offered | aux |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 offered | aux:pass |
| 33 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 cold | parataxis |
| 34 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 33 offered | advmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 given | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 given | cc |
| 37 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 given | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 given | aux |
| 39 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 41 given | advmod |
| 40 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 41 given | aux:pass |
| 41 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 offered | conj |
| 42 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 45 carry | mark |
| 43 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 carry | nsubj |
| 44 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 carry | aux |
| 45 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 given | advcl |
| 46 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 diseases | compound |
| 47 | diseases | disease | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 carry | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 cold | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | gerund | a bumblebee not said here | still; day | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | may | a bumblebee | cold property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | move | gerund | bumblebee | a flower | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme onto flower=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | moving | the best help | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | offer | can · passive | a little sugar water | once property | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 6 | not give | must · passive | honey | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 7 | carry | can | bumblebee | bee diseases | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disease=Theme |
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:333-the-garden-in-spring-buds-frogspawn-queen-bumblebees-and-nesting-birds.lesson:8.
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): R2-punct-next ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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