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title: Honey is made by many worker bees from the nectar they collect; it t… — Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our… · tree and pragmatics
description: Honey is made by many worker bees from the nectar they collect; it takes thousands of flower visits and weeks of work to fill a jar. Who acts: many worker bees, Bees, it. A sentence of the lesson «Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our food» of the biology course of Mova's primary school wi
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# Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our food, sentence 11

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Honey is made by many worker bees from the nectar they collect; it takes thousands of flower visits and weeks of work to fill a jar.

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**Who acts:** many worker bees, Bees, it · **What happens:** make, collect, take, fill · **To what, where:** Honey, nectar, thousands, jar

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our food» 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 (many worker bees, Bees, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:291-bees-worms-and-soil-the-hidden-helpers-of-our-food.lesson:11
# text = Honey is made by many worker bees from the nectar they collect; it takes thousands of flower visits and weeks of work to fill a jar.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 291-bees-worms-and-soil-the-hidden-helpers-of-our-food.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	Honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	worker	worker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:agent	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	nectar	nectar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	collect	collect	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
16	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	visits	visit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	jar	jar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 · passive | many worker bees | Honey |  | the nectar |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent subject=Product from nectar=Material |
| 2 | **collect** | present | Bees *= bee* | the nectar *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nectar=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | present | it | thousands of flower visits and weeks of work |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Theme |
| 4 | **fill** | to-infinitive |  | a jar |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent jar=Patient |

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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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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