Honey and the beekeeper's year, sentence 11
In spring a beekeeper checks that the queen is laying by looking for tiny eggs like grains of rice at the bottom of cells, and waits for a warm, calm day so the babies are not chilled; the colony grows from about 10,000 to 50,000 or more by midsummer.
Who acts: queen, colony · What happens: check, lay, look, wait, not chill, grow · To what, where: bottom, babies, 10,000
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 (queen, colony), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 spring | case |
| 2 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 checks | obl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 checks | det |
| 4 | beekeeper | beekeeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 checks | compound |
| 5 | checks | check | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 grows | parataxis |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 laying | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 queen | det |
| 8 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 laying | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 laying | aux |
| 10 | laying | lay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 checks | ccomp |
| 11 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 12 looking | mark |
| 12 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 laying | advcl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 eggs | case |
| 14 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 eggs | amod |
| 15 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 looking | obl |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 grains | case |
| 17 | grains | grain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 eggs | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 rice | case |
| 19 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 grains | nmod |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 bottom | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bottom | det |
| 22 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 looking | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 cells | case |
| 24 | cells | cell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 bottom | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 waits | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 waits | cc |
| 27 | waits | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 checks | conj |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 day | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 day | det |
| 30 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 day | amod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 warm | punct |
| 32 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 day | amod |
| 33 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 waits | obl |
| 34 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 39 chilled | mark |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 babies | det |
| 36 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 chilled | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 chilled | aux:pass |
| 38 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 39 chilled | advmod |
| 39 | chilled | chill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 waits | advcl |
| 40 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 43 grows | punct |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 colony | det |
| 42 | colony | colony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 grows | nsubj |
| 43 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 44 | from | from | ADP | _ | 46 10,000 | case |
| 45 | about | about | ADV | _ | 46 10,000 | advmod |
| 46 | 10,000 | 10000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 43 grows | obl |
| 47 | to | to | ADP | _ | 48 50,000 | case |
| 48 | 50,000 | 50000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 46 10,000 | nmod |
| 49 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 50 more | cc |
| 50 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 48 50,000 | conj |
| 51 | by | by | ADP | _ | 52 midsummer | case |
| 52 | midsummer | midsummer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 grows | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 checks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | check | present | spring | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | lay | present · progressive | the queen | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | look | gerund | the queen not said here | the bottom of cells | for tiny eggs like grains of rice | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for egg=Theme at bottom=Location | |||
| 4 | wait | present | day | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | not chill | present · passive | the babies | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | grow | present | the colony | 10,000 to 50,000 | by midsummer | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient from 10000=Initial_State by midsummer=Extent |
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:11.
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 ×2, R6-punct-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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