The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantulas and scorpions, sentence 10

The honey bees that fly out to collect pollen and nectar are all female workers, and they do a waggle dance: its angle shows the direction of flowers compared with the sun and the length of the wiggle shows how far; Karl von Frisch won a Nobel Prize for this.

Who acts: honey bees, bees, angle, Karl · What happens: fly out, collect, be, do, show, compare · To what, where: pollen, female workers, waggle dance, direction, flowers, Nobel Prize

This is a sentence of the lesson «The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantulas and scorpions» 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 (honey bees, bees, angle, Karl), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bees	det
2	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bees	compound
3	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 workers	nsubj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 fly	nsubj
5	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bees	acl:relcl
6	out	out	ADV	_	5 fly	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 collect	mark
8	collect	collect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 fly	advcl
9	pollen	pollen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 collect	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 nectar	cc
11	nectar	nectar	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pollen	conj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 workers	cop
13	all	all	ADV	_	14 female	advmod
14	female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 workers	amod
15	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 do	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 do	cc
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 do	nsubj
19	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 workers	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 dance	det
21	waggle	waggle	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dance	compound
22	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 do	obj
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 shows	punct
24	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 angle	nmod:poss
25	angle	angle	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 shows	nsubj
26	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 do	parataxis
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 direction	det
28	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 shows	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 flowers	case
30	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 direction	nmod
31	compared	compare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 flowers	acl
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 sun	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 sun	det
34	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 compared	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 length	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 length	det
37	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 direction	conj
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 wiggle	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 wiggle	det
40	wiggle	wiggle	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 length	nmod
41	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 shows	conj
42	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	43 far	advmod
43	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	41 shows	advmod
44	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 won	punct
45	Karl	Karl	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 won	nsubj
46	von	von	X	Foreign=Yes	45 Karl	dep
47	Frisch	Frisch	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 Karl	flat
48	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 do	conj
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 Prize	det
50	Nobel	Nobel	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 Prize	compound
51	Prize	Prize	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 won	obj
52	for	for	ADP	_	53 this	case
53	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	48 won	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 workers	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fly out	present	the honey bees		out property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	collect	to-infinitive	the honey bees not said here	pollen and nectar		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pollen=Theme
3	is a	present	the honey bees	female workers		tree rules
4	do	present	bees = bee	a waggle dance		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Eventuality
5	show	present	dance's angle	the direction of flowers and the length of the wiggle		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent direction=Recipient
6	compare	participle		flowers not said here	with the sun	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with sun=Co-Patient
7	show	present	dance's angle not said here		far property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	win	past	Karl	a Nobel Prize	for this	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent prize=Theme for this=Beneficiary

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:097-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions.lesson:10.

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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