--- title: The old story that science proves bumblebees cannot fly came from a… — Bees: the waggle dance, the hive and honey · tree and pragmatics description: The old story that science proves bumblebees cannot fly came from a wrong simple calculation; bees beat their wings very fast and make swirls of air that lift them. Who acts: science, bumblebees, old story, bees. 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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 (science, bumblebees, old story, bees), 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:12 # text = The old story that science proves bumblebees cannot fly came from a wrong simple calculation; bees beat their wings very fast and make swirls of air that lift them. # 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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 4 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 6 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 5 science science NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 proves prove VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl _ _ 7 bumblebees bumblebee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 8 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 ccomp _ _ 11 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 from from ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 14 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 15 simple simple ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 calculation calculation NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 18 bees bee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 beat beat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 20 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 very very ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 fast fast ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 26 swirls swirl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 29 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 30 lift lift VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 31 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **prove** | present | science | the old story | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent that=Attribute clause=Theme | | 2 | **not** **fly** | can | bumblebees | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **come** | past | the old story | | | a wrong simple calculation | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from calculation=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **beat** | present | bees | bees's wings | | | | fast *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme | | 5 | **make** | present | bees *not said here* | swirls of air | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset swirl=Product | | 6 | **lift** | present | swirls of air | bees *= bee* | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:239-bees-the-waggle-dance-the-hive-and-honey.lesson:12`. **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. 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