Insects: six legs, three parts; ants, bees and wasps, sentence 12
Bees make honey from nectar by passing it between workers and fanning it until most of the water is gone; one worker makes only about a twelfth of a teaspoon in her life, and honey left too watery can go mouldy.
Who acts: Bees, most, one worker, honey · What happens: make, pass, fan, be, leave, go · To what, where: honey, nectar, workers, twelfth, life
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 (Bees, most, one worker, honey), 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 make | nsubj |
| 2 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 make | obj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 nectar | case |
| 5 | nectar | nectar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 make | obl |
| 6 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 7 passing | mark |
| 7 | passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 make | advcl |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 passing | obj |
| 9 | between | between | ADP | _ | 10 workers | case |
| 10 | workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 passing | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fanning | cc |
| 12 | fanning | fan | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 passing | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 fanning | obj |
| 14 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 20 gone | mark |
| 15 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 gone | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 water | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 water | det |
| 18 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 most | nmod |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 gone | cop |
| 20 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fanning | advcl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 makes | punct |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 worker | nummod |
| 23 | worker | worker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 makes | nsubj |
| 24 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 make | parataxis |
| 25 | only | only | ADV | _ | 28 twelfth | advmod |
| 26 | about | about | ADV | _ | 28 twelfth | advmod |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 twelfth | det |
| 28 | twelfth | twelfth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 makes | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 teaspoon | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 teaspoon | det |
| 31 | teaspoon | teaspoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 twelfth | nmod |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 life | case |
| 33 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 life | nmod:poss |
| 34 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 makes | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 go | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 honey | cc |
| 37 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 go | nsubj |
| 38 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 honey | acl |
| 39 | too | too | ADV | _ | 40 watery | advmod |
| 40 | watery | watery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 left | xcomp |
| 41 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 go | aux |
| 42 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 24 makes | conj |
| 43 | mouldy | mouldy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 go | xcomp |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 make | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Bees | honey | nectar | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent honey=Product from nectar=Material | |||
| 2 | pass | gerund | Bees not said here | honey | workers | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme between worker=Destination | |||
| 3 | fan | gerund | Bees not said here | honey | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present | most of the water | gone property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | make | present | one worker | a twelfth of a teaspoon | dance's life | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset twelfth=Product | |||
| 6 | leave | participle | honey not said here | watery property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | go | can | honey | mouldy property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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.
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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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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