Insects: six legs, three parts; ants, bees and wasps, sentence 16
A honeybee colony has one queen laying up to about 1,500 eggs a day in summer, tens of thousands of female workers and some male drones.
Who acts: honeybee colony, one queen · What happens: have, lay up · To what, where: one queen
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 (honeybee colony, one queen), 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 | 3 colony | det |
| 2 | honeybee | honeybee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 colony | compound |
| 3 | colony | colony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 queen | nummod |
| 6 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | obj |
| 7 | laying | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 queen | acl |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 laying | compound:prt |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 eggs | case |
| 10 | about | about | ADV | _ | 11 1,500 | advmod |
| 11 | 1,500 | 1,500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 eggs | nummod |
| 12 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 laying | obl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 day | det |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 laying | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 summer | case |
| 16 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 laying | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 tens | punct |
| 18 | tens | ten | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 eggs | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 thousands | case |
| 20 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 tens | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 workers | case |
| 22 | female | female | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 workers | amod |
| 23 | workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 thousands | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 drones | cc |
| 25 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 drones | det |
| 26 | male | male | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 drones | amod |
| 27 | drones | drone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 eggs | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a honeybee colony | one queen | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Patient | ||||
| 2 | lay up | gerund | one queen not said here | day; summer | to 1,500 eggs and tens of thousands of female workers and some male drones | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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:16.
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 ×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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