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title: A beehive on a summer day is a city of about 50,000 bees, and every… — Bees: the waggle dance, the hive and honey · tree and pragmatics
description: A beehive on a summer day is a city of about 50,000 bees, and every bee in it has a job. Who acts: beehive, bee. A sentence of the lesson «Bees: the waggle dance, the hive and honey» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Bees: the waggle dance, the hive and honey, sentence 0

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A beehive on a summer day is a city of about 50,000 bees, and every bee in it has a job.

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**Who acts:** beehive, bee · **What happens:** be, have · **To what, where:** city, job

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bees: the waggle dance, the hive and honey» 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 (beehive, bee), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:239-bees-the-waggle-dance-the-hive-and-honey.lesson:0
# text = A beehive on a summer day is a city of about 50,000 bees, and every bee in it has a job.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 239-bees-the-waggle-dance-the-hive-and-honey.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): R2-punct-next ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	beehive	beehive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	about	about	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	50,000	50000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=9:punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	_
20	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **is a** | present | a beehive on a summer day | a city |  |  |  | of 50,000 bees | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | every bee in beehive | a job |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Patient |

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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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**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): R2-punct-next ×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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