Honey and the beekeeper's year, sentence 1
On the first warm, calm day of spring she lifts the lid, puffs a little smoke and looks for tiny eggs standing like grains of rice in the cells, the sign that the queen is laying.
Who acts: she, tiny eggs, queen · What happens: lift, puff, look, stand, lay · To what, where: lid, little smoke, cells, sign
This is a sentence of the lesson «Honey and the beekeeper's year» 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 (she, tiny eggs, queen), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 7 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 day | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 day | amod |
| 4 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 day | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 warm | punct |
| 6 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 day | amod |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lifts | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 spring | case |
| 9 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 day | nmod |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 lifts | nsubj |
| 11 | lifts | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 lid | det |
| 13 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lifts | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 puffs | punct |
| 15 | puffs | puff | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 lifts | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 smoke | det |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 smoke | amod |
| 18 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 puffs | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 looks | cc |
| 20 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 puffs | conj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 eggs | case |
| 22 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 eggs | amod |
| 23 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 looks | obl |
| 24 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 eggs | acl |
| 25 | like | like | ADP | _ | 26 grains | case |
| 26 | grains | grain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 standing | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 rice | case |
| 28 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 grains | nmod |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 cells | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 cells | det |
| 31 | cells | cell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 standing | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 sign | punct |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 sign | det |
| 34 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 looks | parataxis |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 laying | mark |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 queen | det |
| 37 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 laying | nsubj |
| 38 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 laying | aux |
| 39 | laying | lay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 sign | acl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 lifts | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | present | she | the lid | day | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Theme | |||
| 2 | puff | present | she not said here | a little smoke | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location smoke=Source | ||||
| 3 | look | present | she not said here | for tiny eggs | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for egg=Theme | ||||
| 4 | stand | gerund | tiny eggs not said here | the cells | like grains of rice | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cell=Location | |||
| 5 | lay | present · progressive | the queen | the sign not said here | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Result |
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:344-honey-and-the-beekeepers-year.lesson:1.
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 ×5, R6-punct-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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