--- title: Honeybees are kept by beekeepers and are not close to dying out, but… — Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our… · tree and pragmatics description: Honeybees are kept by beekeepers and are not close to dying out, but many wild bees and other pollinators are declining because of lost flowers, pesticides, disease and climate change. Who acts: beekeepers, many wild bees. 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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 (beekeepers, many wild bees), 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:9 # text = Honeybees are kept by beekeepers and are not close to dying out, but many wild bees and other pollinators are declining because of lost flowers, pesticides, disease and climate change. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Honeybees honeybee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 by by ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 beekeepers beekeeper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl:agent _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 10 to to SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 11 dying die VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 12 out out ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 15 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 16 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 bees bee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 pollinators pollinator NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 21 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 declining decline VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis 23 because because ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 26 case _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 23 fixed _ _ 25 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 amod _ _ 26 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 pesticides pesticide NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 disease disease NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 climate climate NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 change change NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=30:conj 34 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **keep** | present · passive | beekeepers | Honeybees | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 2 | **not** **is** | present | beekeepers *not said here* | | | | | close *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **die out** | gerund | beekeepers *not said here* | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **decline** | present · progressive | many wild bees and other pollinators | | | | | because lost flowers and pesticides and disease and climate change | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **lose** | participle | | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «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:291-bees-worms-and-soil-the-hidden-helpers-of-our-food.lesson:9`. **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): R3-conj-first ×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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