Honey and the beekeeper's year, sentence 7
In autumn she checks for mites and weighs the hive, and in winter the bees huddle in a ball and shiver to keep warm, living on the honey they saved.
Who acts: beekeeper, bees · What happens: check, weigh, huddle, shiver, keep, live · To what, where: hive, ball, 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 (beekeeper, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 autumn | case |
| 2 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 checks | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 checks | nsubj |
| 4 | checks | check | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 mites | case |
| 6 | mites | mite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 checks | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 weighs | cc |
| 8 | weighs | weigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 checks | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hive | det |
| 10 | hive | hive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 weighs | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 huddle | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 huddle | cc |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 winter | case |
| 14 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 huddle | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bees | det |
| 16 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 huddle | nsubj |
| 17 | huddle | huddle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 checks | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 ball | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 ball | det |
| 20 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 huddle | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 shiver | cc |
| 22 | shiver | shiver | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 huddle | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 keep | mark |
| 24 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 shiver | advcl |
| 25 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 keep | xcomp |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 living | punct |
| 27 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 keep | advcl |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 honey | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 honey | det |
| 30 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 living | obl |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 saved | nsubj |
| 32 | saved | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 honey | acl:relcl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 checks | 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 | check | present | beekeeper | autumn | for mites | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent for mite=Attribute | |||
| 2 | weigh | present | beekeeper not said here | the hive | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme hive=Value | ||||
| 3 | huddle | present | the bees | a ball | winter | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ball=Location | |||
| 4 | shiver | present | the bees not said here | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | keep | to-infinitive | the bees not said here | warm property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | live | gerund | the bees not said here | the honey | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on honey=Location | ||||
| 7 | save | past | bees = bee | the honey not said here | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honey=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:7.
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. 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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