--- title: Workers change jobs as they age: cleaning, feeding young, building w… — Bees: the waggle dance, the hive and honey · tree and pragmatics description: Workers change jobs as they age: cleaning, feeding young, building wax, guarding and finally fetching food; a summer worker lives about five or six weeks. Who acts: Workers, bees, summer worker. 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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 (Workers, bees, summer worker), 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:7 # text = Workers change jobs as they age: cleaning, feeding young, building wax, guarding and finally fetching food; a summer worker lives about five or six weeks. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Workers worker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 change change VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 jobs job NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 as as SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 5 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 age age VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 8 cleaning cleaning NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obj 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 feeding feed VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advcl 11 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 13 building building NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 wax wax NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 guarding guard VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 conj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 finally finally ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 fetching fetch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 conj _ _ 20 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 worker worker NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:compound 25 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 26 about about ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 27 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 28 or or CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 conj _ _ 30 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl:unmarked _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **change** | present | Workers | jobs | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Patient | | 2 | **age** | present | bees *= bee* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **feed** | gerund | Workers *not said here* | young building wax | | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wax=Recipient | | 4 | **guard** | gerund | Workers *not said here* | | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **fetch** | gerund | Workers *not said here* | food | | | | finally *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme | | 6 | **live** | present | a summer worker | | | | week | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: 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:7`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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