--- title: A hive can have about 50,000 bees: one queen, tens of thousands of f… — Bees: the waggle dance, the hive and honey · tree and pragmatics description: A hive can have about 50,000 bees: one queen, tens of thousands of female workers and some hundreds of males called drones. Who acts: hive, males. A sentence of the lesson «Bees: the waggle dance, the hive and honey» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pra --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/239-bees-the-waggle-dance-the-hive-and-honey/6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Bees: the waggle dance, the hive and h…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/239-bees-the-waggle-dance-the-hive-and-honey/) / 6 # Bees: the waggle dance, the hive and honey, sentence 6 A hive can have about 50,000 bees: one queen, tens of thousands of female workers and some hundreds of males called drones. **Who acts:** hive, males · **What happens:** have, call · **To what, where:** 50,000 bees, drones · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Bees: the waggle dance, the hive and honey» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hive, males), 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:6 # text = A hive can have about 50,000 bees: one queen, tens of thousands of female workers and some hundreds of males called drones. # 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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 hive hive NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 about about ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 6 50,000 50,000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 bees bee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 9 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:nmod 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 tens ten NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 female female ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 workers worker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 20 det _ _ 20 hundreds hundred NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 males male NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 23 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 acl _ _ 24 drones drone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 xcomp _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | can | a hive | 50,000 bees and tens of thousands of female workers and some hundreds of males | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bee=Patient | | 2 | **call** | participle | males *not said here* | drones | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:6`. **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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