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title: Back in the hive it does a little waggle dance, and the direction an… — Bees and wasps in the garden · tree and pragmatics
description: Back in the hive it does a little waggle dance, and the direction and length of the dance tell the other bees exactly where the flowers are. Who acts: hive, direction, flowers. A sentence of the lesson «Bees and wasps in the garden» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency 
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# Bees and wasps in the garden, sentence 1

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Back in the hive it does a little waggle dance, and the direction and length of the dance tell the other bees exactly where the flowers are.

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**Who acts:** hive, direction, flowers · **What happens:** do, tell, be · **To what, where:** little waggle dance, other bees · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (hive, direction, flowers), 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:1
# text = Back in the hive it does a little waggle dance, and the direction and length of the dance tell the other bees exactly where the flowers are.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×5
1	Back	back	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advmod
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hive	hive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nsubj
6	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:aux|HaikuPos=AUX:VBZ:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	waggle	waggle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=10:cc
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=14:cc
16	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod
20	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
24	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	20	ccomp	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
28	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **do** | present | hive | a little waggle dance |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Eventuality |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the direction of the dance and length |  | the other bees |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bee=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** | present | the flowers |  |  |  |  | exactly, where *property* | tree rules |

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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: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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×5. **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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