Honey and the beekeeper's year, sentence 22

Honeybees do not hibernate; in winter they huddle in a ball and shiver their flight muscles to make heat, and winter workers can live several months.

Who acts: Honeybees, bees, winter workers · What happens: not hibernate, huddle, shiver, make, live · To what, where: ball, flight muscles, heat

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 (Honeybees, bees, winter workers), 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	Honeybees	honeybee	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hibernate	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hibernate	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 hibernate	advmod
4	hibernate	hibernate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 huddle	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 winter	case
7	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 huddle	obl
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 huddle	nsubj
9	huddle	huddle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hibernate	parataxis
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 ball	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 ball	det
12	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 huddle	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 shiver	cc
14	shiver	shiver	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 huddle	conj
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 muscles	nmod:poss
16	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 muscles	compound
17	muscles	muscle	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 shiver	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 make	mark
19	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 shiver	advcl
20	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 make	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 live	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 live	cc
23	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 workers	compound
24	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 live	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 live	aux
26	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hibernate	conj
27	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 months	amod
28	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 live	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hibernate	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	not hibernate	present · do-support	Honeybees				vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location
2	huddle	present	bees = bee		a ball	winter	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ball=Location
3	shiver	present	bees = bee not said here	bees's flight muscles			tree rules
4	make	to-infinitive	bees = bee not said here	heat			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset heat=Product
5	live	can	winter workers			month	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:22.

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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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