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title: Most kinds of bee live alone; a solitary bee lays its eggs in a hole… — Bees and wasps in the garden · tree and pragmatics
description: Most kinds of bee live alone; a solitary bee lays its eggs in a hole in a wall, a hollow stem or a tunnel in the ground. Who acts: Most kinds, solitary bee. A sentence of the lesson «Bees and wasps in the garden» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Bees and wasps in the garden, sentence 11

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Most kinds of bee live alone; a solitary bee lays its eggs in a hole in a wall, a hollow stem or a tunnel in the ground.

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**Who acts:** Most kinds, solitary bee · **What happens:** live, lay · **To what, where:** eggs, hole

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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 (Most kinds, solitary bee), 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:11
# text = Most kinds of bee live alone; a solitary bee lays its eggs in a hole in a wall, a hollow stem or a tunnel in the ground.
# 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	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	solitary	solitary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	lays	lay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	hollow	hollow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	stem	stem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	tunnel	tunnel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **live** | present | Most kinds of bee |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lay** | present | a solitary bee | flower's eggs |  | a hole in a wall |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in hole=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:11`.

**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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