Honey and the beekeeper's year, sentence 10

Real honey sits in wax cells, and the bees would not hand it over so politely.

Who acts: Real honey, bees · What happens: sit, not hand over · To what, where: wax cells, honey

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 (Real honey, bees), 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 honey	amod
2	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sits	nsubj
3	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 cells	case
5	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cells	compound
6	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sits	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hand	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hand	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bees	det
10	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hand	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 hand	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 hand	advmod
13	hand	hand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sits	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hand	obj
15	over	over	ADP	_	13 hand	compound:prt
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 politely	advmod
17	politely	politely	ADV	_	13 hand	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sits	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	present	Real honey			wax cells			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cell=Location
2	not hand over	would	the bees	honey				politely property	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:344-honey-and-the-beekeepers-year.lesson:10.

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 ×1, R5-strong ×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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