--- title: A honeybee hive is one big family: one queen lays the eggs, thousand… — Bees and wasps in the garden · tree and pragmatics description: A honeybee hive is one big family: one queen lays the eggs, thousands of worker sisters do the work, and the nectar they bring is turned into honey, food for the winter. Who acts: honeybee hive, one queen, thousands. 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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 (honeybee hive, one queen, thousands), 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:2 # text = A honeybee hive is one big family: one queen lays the eggs, thousands of worker sisters do the work, and the nectar they bring is turned into honey, food for the winter. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 honeybee honeybee NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 hive hive NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 6 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 9 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 lays lay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 worker worker NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 18 sisters sister NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 19 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 nectar nectar NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 bring bring VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 turned turn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 30 into into ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 honey honey NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 34 for for ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | a honeybee hive | one big family | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **lay** | present | one queen | the eggs | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result | | 3 | **do** | present | thousands of worker sisters | the work | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | | 4 | **bring** | present | thousands *= thousand* | the nectar *not said here* | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent nectar=Theme | | 5 | **turn** | present · passive | | the nectar | | honey for the winter and food | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into honey=Trajectory | 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:2`. **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): 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/). - ← previous: [Bees and wasps in the garden, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden/1/) - next →: [Bees and wasps in the garden, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden/)