Insects: six legs, three parts; ants, bees and wasps, sentence 11

A honeybee's waggle dance shows the direction of flowers compared with the sun and, by the length of the waggle, how far away they are.

Who acts: waggle dance, Ants, honeybee · What happens: show, compare, be, dance · To what, where: direction, flowers

This is a sentence of the lesson «Insects: six legs, three parts; ants, bees and wasps» 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 (waggle dance, Ants, honeybee), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 honeybee	det
2	honeybee	honeybee	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dance	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 honeybee	case
4	waggle	waggle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dance	compound
5	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shows	nsubj
6	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 direction	det
8	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shows	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 flowers	case
10	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 direction	nmod
11	compared	compare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 flowers	acl
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 sun	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sun	det
14	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 compared	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 length	cc
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 length	punct
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 length	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 length	det
19	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shows	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 waggle	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 waggle	det
22	waggle	waggle	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 length	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 away	punct
24	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	26 away	advmod
25	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 away	advmod
26	away	away	ADV	_	19 length	advmod
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 away	nsubj
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 away	cop
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 shows	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	show	present	a honeybee's waggle dance	the direction of flowers		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent direction=Recipient
2	compare	participle		flowers not said here	with the sun	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with sun=Co-Patient
3	is	present	Ants = ant		away, far property	tree rules
4	dance		a honeybee			nom dance «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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:036-insects-six-legs-ants-bees-and-wasps.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): no change. 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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