--- title: The waggle dance shows the direction to the flowers by its angle fro… — Bees: the waggle dance, the hive and honey · tree and pragmatics description: The waggle dance shows the direction to the flowers by its angle from straight up, compared with the sun, so a waggle straight up means «fly towards the sun», and the distance by how long the waggle lasts. Who acts: waggle dance, waggle. 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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 (waggle dance, waggle), 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:4 # text = The waggle dance shows the direction to the flowers by its angle from straight up, compared with the sun, so a waggle straight up means «fly towards the sun», and the distance by how long the waggle lasts. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 waggle waggle NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 dance dance NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 direction direction NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 10 by by ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 angle angle NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod 13 from from ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 straight straight ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 15 up up ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 17 compared compare VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 waggle waggle NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 25 straight straight ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 up up ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 28 « « PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct 29 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 towards towards ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 » » PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 distance distance NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 38 by by ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 40 advmod _ _ 40 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 29 advmod _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 waggle waggle NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 43 lasts last VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 advcl _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | present | the waggle dance | the direction | the flowers | | | by direction's angle | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent direction=Topic to flower=Recipient | | 2 | **compare** | participle | | the direction *not said here* | | | | with the sun | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with sun=Co-Patient | | 3 | **mean** | present | a waggle | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **fly** *not said to happen, in a quote* | infinitive | a waggle *not said here* | | | the sun | | long *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards sun=Destination | | 5 | **last** | present | the waggle | | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:239-bees-the-waggle-dance-the-hive-and-honey.lesson:4`. **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, R6-punct-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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