--- title: Guard bees at the door smell each incoming bee to check it carries t… — Bees: the waggle dance, the hive and honey · tree and pragmatics description: Guard bees at the door smell each incoming bee to check it carries the hive's own smell, though a stranger bee bringing nectar is sometimes let in, as if she paid a toll. Who acts: Guard bees, door, stranger bee, hive. 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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 (Guard bees, door, stranger bee, hive), 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:15 # text = Guard bees at the door smell each incoming bee to check it carries the hive's own smell, though a stranger bee bringing nectar is sometimes let in, as if she paid a toll. # 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 ×5, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Guard Guard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 bees bee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 smell smell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 9 det _ _ 8 incoming incoming VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 amod _ _ 9 bee bee NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 check check VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:acl 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 carries carry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 ccomp _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 hive hive NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod:poss _ _ 16 's 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 smell smell NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 20 though though SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:det 22 stranger stranger NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 bee bee NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj:pass _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:compound 24 bringing bring VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 25 nectar nectar NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:nsubj:pass 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 27 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 28 advmod _ _ 28 let let VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 advcl _ _ 29 in in ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 as as SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 32 if if SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 33 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 paid pay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:parataxis 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 toll toll NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **smell** | present | Guard bees at the door | each incoming bee | | | | | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bee=Stimulus | | 2 | **incoming** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **check** | to-infinitive | Guard bees at the door *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **carry** | present | door | the hive's own smell | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smell=Theme | | 5 | **bring** | gerund | a stranger bee *not said here* | nectar | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent nectar=Theme | | 6 | **let in** | present · passive | | a stranger bee | | | | sometimes *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 7 | **pay** | past | hive | a toll | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toll=Asset | | 8 | **smell** | | the hive | | | | | | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:15`. **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 ×5, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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