How animals talk, sentence 1

A honeybee that has found flowers dances a figure of eight on the comb, and the angle and length of her waggle tell her sisters which way to fly and how far, a map made of movement.

Who acts: honeybee, angle · What happens: find, dance, tell, fly, make, waggle · To what, where: flowers, figure, comb, way, sisters, map · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «How animals talk» 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, angle), 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	7 dances	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 found	nsubj
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 found	aux
5	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 honeybee	acl:relcl
6	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 found	obj
7	dances	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 figure	det
9	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dances	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 eight	case
11	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 figure	nmod
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 comb	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 comb	det
14	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dances	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 tell	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 tell	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 angle	det
18	angle	angle	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tell	nsubj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 length	cc
20	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 angle	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 waggle	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 waggle	nmod:poss
23	waggle	waggle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 angle	nmod
24	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 dances	conj
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 sisters	nmod:poss
26	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 tell	iobj
27	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	28 way	det
28	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tell	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 fly	mark
30	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 way	acl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 map	cc
32	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	33 far	advmod
33	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 fly	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 far	punct
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 map	det
36	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fly	conj
37	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 map	acl
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 movement	case
39	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 made	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 dances	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	present · perfect	a honeybee	flowers				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Topic
2	dance	present	a honeybee	a figure of eight		the comb		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location figure=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	present	the angle of honeybee's waggle and length	which way	honeybee's sisters			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient way=Topic
4	fly	to-infinitive	the angle of honeybee's waggle and length not said here	which way not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	make	participle		a map not said here			of movement	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
6	waggle		honeybee					nom waggle «act intransitive»: 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:050-how-animals-talk.lesson:1.

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 ×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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