--- title: All the worker bees in a honeybee hive are females; the males, calle… — Bees and wasps in the garden · tree and pragmatics description: All the worker bees in a honeybee hive are females; the males, called drones, do not collect food and have no sting. Who acts: worker bees, males. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (worker bees, males), 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:18 # text = All the worker bees in a honeybee hive are females; the males, called drones, do not collect food and have no sting. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 All all DET PDT PronType=Tot 4 det:predet _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 worker worker NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 bees bee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 honeybee honeybee NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 hive hive NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 9 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 females female NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 males male NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj 14 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 15 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 acl _ _ 16 drones drone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 xcomp _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 18 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:aux|HaikuPos=AUX:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 collect collect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 21 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 24 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 25 det _ _ 25 sting sting NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | all worker bees in a honeybee hive | females | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **call** | participle | the males *not said here* | drones | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **collect** | present · do-support | the males | food | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme | | 4 | **have** | present | the males *not said here* | no sting | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sting=Patient | 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](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:18`. **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, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Bees and wasps in the garden, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden/17/) - next →: [Butterflies, moths and ladybirds, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/219-butterflies-moths-and-ladybirds/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden/)