--- title: Bees turn flower nectar into honey to eat in winter, store it in six… — Bees: the waggle dance, the hive and honey · tree and pragmatics description: Bees turn flower nectar into honey to eat in winter, store it in six-sided wax cells and guard the door against robbers. Who acts: 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 (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:2 # text = Bees turn flower nectar into honey to eat in winter, store it in six-sided wax cells and guard the door against robbers. # 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 ×2 1 Bees bee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 nectar nectar NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 into into ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 honey honey NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 store store VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 15 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nummod 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ _ 17 sided sided ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 wax wax NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 cells cell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 guard guard VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 against against ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 robbers robber NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | present | Bees | flower nectar | | honey | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent nectar=Theme into honey=Trajectory | | 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive | Bees *not said here* | | | | winter | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **store** | infinitive | Bees *not said here* | nectar | | sided wax cells | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in cell=Location | | 4 | **guard** | infinitive | Bees *not said here* | the door | | | | against robbers | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent door=Beneficiary against robber=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:2`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Bees: the waggle dance, the hive and h…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/239-bees-the-waggle-dance-the-hive-and-honey/1/) - next →: [Bees: the waggle dance, the hive and h…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/239-bees-the-waggle-dance-the-hive-and-honey/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/239-bees-the-waggle-dance-the-hive-and-honey/)