--- title: The queen lays the eggs but gives no orders; she lays up to about 2,… — Bees: the waggle dance, the hive and honey · tree and pragmatics description: The queen lays the eggs but gives no orders; she lays up to about 2,000 eggs a day in summer, and any female larva fed only royal jelly can become a queen. Who acts: queen, female larva. 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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 (queen, female larva), 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:16 # text = The queen lays the eggs but gives no orders; she lays up to about 2,000 eggs a day in summer, and any female larva fed only royal jelly can become a queen. # 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 ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 lays lay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 but but CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 8 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 9 det _ _ 9 orders order NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 lays lay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 13 up up ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 about about ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 2,000 2000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl:unmarked _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nmod 22 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 24 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 26 det _ _ 25 female female ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 larva larva NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 27 fed feed VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 acl _ _ 28 only only ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 29 royal royal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 jelly jelly NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:obl 31 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 become become VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 xcomp _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lay** | present | the queen | the eggs | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result | | 2 | **give** | present | the queen *not said here* | no orders | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | | 3 | **lay up** | present | queen | | | | day; summer | to 2,000 eggs | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **feed** | participle | any female larva *not said here* | royal jelly | | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent jelly=Theme | | 5 | **become** | can | any female larva | a queen | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | 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:16`. **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 ×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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