--- title: When a worker finds good flowers, she comes home and dances a figure… — Bees: the waggle dance, the hive and honey · tree and pragmatics description: When a worker finds good flowers, she comes home and dances a figure of eight on the comb; the dance tells her sisters which way to fly and how far. Who acts: worker, dance. 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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, dance), 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:1 # text = When a worker finds good flowers, she comes home and dances a figure of eight on the comb; the dance tells her sisters which way to fly and how far. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 4 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 worker worker NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 finds find VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 5 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 home home ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 dances dance VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 figure figure NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nmod _ _ 17 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 comb comb NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 dance dance NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 24 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 sisters sister NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 iobj _ _ 26 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 27 det _ _ 27 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 acl _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 32 advmod _ _ 32 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 29 conj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | present | a worker | good flowers | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Topic | | 2 | **come** | present | worker | | | | | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **dance** | present | worker *not said here* | a figure of eight | | the comb | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location figure=Theme | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the dance | which way | dance's sisters | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient way=Topic | | 5 | **fly** | to-infinitive | the dance *not said here* | which way *not said here* | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. 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