Honey and the beekeeper's year, sentence 17

Bees turn nectar into honey by passing it from bee to bee, adding body chemicals and fanning it until most of the water is gone, and one worker makes only about a twelfth of a teaspoon in her life.

Who acts: Bees, most, one worker · What happens: turn, pass, add, fan, be, make · To what, where: nectar, honey, bee, body chemicals, twelfth, life

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 (Bees, most, one worker), 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	Bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 turn	nsubj
2	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nectar	nectar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turn	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 honey	case
5	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turn	obl
6	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 passing	mark
7	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 turn	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 passing	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 bee	case
10	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 passing	obl
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 bee	case
12	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 passing	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 adding	punct
14	adding	add	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 passing	conj
15	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 chemicals	compound
16	chemicals	chemical	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 adding	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 fanning	cc
18	fanning	fan	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 adding	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 fanning	obj
20	until	until	SCONJ	_	26 gone	mark
21	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 gone	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 water	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 water	det
24	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 most	nmod
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 gone	cop
26	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 fanning	advcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 makes	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 makes	cc
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 worker	nummod
30	worker	worker	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 makes	nsubj
31	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 turn	conj
32	only	only	ADV	_	35 twelfth	advmod
33	about	about	ADP	_	35 twelfth	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 twelfth	det
35	twelfth	twelfth	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 makes	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 teaspoon	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 teaspoon	det
38	teaspoon	teaspoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 twelfth	nmod
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 life	case
40	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 life	nmod:poss
41	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 makes	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 turn	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn	present	Bees	nectar		honey		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent nectar=Theme into honey=Trajectory
2	pass	gerund	Bees not said here	honey	bee		from bee	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme from bee=Initial_Location to bee=Destination
3	add speech: assert	gerund	Bees not said here	body chemicals				vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chemical=Patient
4	fan	gerund	Bees not said here	honey				tree rules
5	is	present	most of the water				gone property	tree rules
6	make	present	one worker	a twelfth of a teaspoon		worker's life		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset twelfth=Product

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:17.

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 ×3, 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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