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title: On a sunny day a honeybee lands on a flower, drinks sweet nectar wit… — Bees and wasps in the garden · tree and pragmatics
description: On a sunny day a honeybee lands on a flower, drinks sweet nectar with its long tongue and flies off with yellow balls of pollen packed on its back legs, like a shopper with two full bags. Who acts: honeybee. A sentence of the lesson «Bees and wasps in the garden» of the biology course of Mova's prim
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# Bees and wasps in the garden, sentence 0

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On a sunny day a honeybee lands on a flower, drinks sweet nectar with its long tongue and flies off with yellow balls of pollen packed on its back legs, like a shopper with two full bags.

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**Who acts:** honeybee · **What happens:** land, drink, fly off, pack · **To what, where:** flower, sweet nectar, yellow balls, back legs

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bees and wasps in the garden» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden.lesson:0
# text = On a sunny day a honeybee lands on a flower, drinks sweet nectar with its long tongue and flies off with yellow balls of pollen packed on its back legs, like a shopper with two full bags.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	sunny	sunny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det
6	honeybee	honeybee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:compound
7	lands	land	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	drinks	drink	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	nectar	nectar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	flies	fly	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
21	off	off	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	balls	ball	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	pollen	pollen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	packed	pack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	back	back	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	like	like	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	shopper	shopper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	39	nummod	_	_
38	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	bags	bag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **land** | present | a honeybee |  |  | a flower | day |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on flower=Destination |
| 2 | **drink** | present | a honeybee *not said here* | sweet nectar |  |  |  | with honeybee's long tongue | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nectar=Patient |
| 3 | **fly off** | present | a honeybee *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with yellow balls of pollen | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **pack** | participle |  | yellow balls of pollen *not said here* |  | honeybee's back legs |  | like a shopper with two full bags | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on leg=Destination |

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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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden.lesson:0`.

**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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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