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title: Bees make honey from nectar by adding enzymes and fanning it with th… — Bees: the waggle dance, the hive and honey · tree and pragmatics
description: Bees make honey from nectar by adding enzymes and fanning it with their wings until most of the water is gone, and it feeds them in winter. Who acts: Bees, most, honey. A sentence of the lesson «Bees: the waggle dance, the hive and honey» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depen
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# Bees: the waggle dance, the hive and honey, sentence 8

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Bees make honey from nectar by adding enzymes and fanning it with their wings until most of the water is gone, and it feeds them in winter.

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**Who acts:** Bees, most, honey · **What happens:** make, add, fan, be, feed · **To what, where:** honey, nectar, enzymes, bees

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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 (Bees, most, honey), 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:8
# text = Bees make honey from nectar by adding enzymes and fanning it with their wings until most of the water is gone, and it feeds them in winter.
# 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): no change
1	Bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	nectar	nectar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	adding	add	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
8	enzymes	enzyme	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	fanning	fan	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
15	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
16	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	advcl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	feeds	feed	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Bees | honey |  | nectar |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent honey=Product from nectar=Material |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | gerund | Bees *not said here* | enzymes |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enzyme=Patient |
| 3 | **fan** | gerund | Bees *not said here* | honey |  |  |  | with bees's wings | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | most of the water |  |  |  |  | gone *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **feed** | present | honey | bees *= bee* |  |  | winter |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |

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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.

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**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): no change. **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/).

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