Insects and spiders, sentence 14
A honeybee does a waggle dance to tell other bees where to find flowers.
Who acts: honeybee · What happens: do, tell, find · To what, where: waggle dance, other bees, flowers · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Insects and spiders» of the world 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), 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 | 3 does | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 dance | det |
| 5 | waggle | waggle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dance | compound |
| 6 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 does | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 tell | mark |
| 8 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 does | advcl |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bees | amod |
| 10 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 tell | iobj |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 find | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 find | mark |
| 13 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 tell | ccomp |
| 14 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 find | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 does | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | a honeybee | a waggle dance | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | a honeybee not said here | other bees | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent bee=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | find not said to happen | to-infinitive | flowers | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Topic |
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:world:072-insects-and-spiders.lesson:14.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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