--- title: When people say «bee» they often picture a honeybee hive, but there… — Bees beyond the hive: bumblebees, solitary bees,… · tree and pragmatics description: When people say «bee» they often picture a honeybee hive, but there are about 20,000 kinds of bee and most of them live alone, each female building her own little nest. Who acts: people, 20,000 kinds, most, female. 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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 (people, 20,000 kinds, most, female), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:305-bees-beyond-the-hive-bumblebees-solitary-bees-carpenter-bees-and-stingless-bees.lesson:0 # text = When people say «bee» they often picture a honeybee hive, but there are about 20,000 kinds of bee and most of them live alone, each female building her own little nest. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 305-bees-beyond-the-hive-bumblebees-solitary-bees-carpenter-bees-and-stingless-bees.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 3 mark _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct 5 bee bee NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 often often ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 picture picture VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 honeybee honeybee NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 hive hive NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=9:punct 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 16 expl _ _ 16 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 17 about about ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 20,000 20000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 bee bee NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 23 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 26 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:JJS:_ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nmod _ _ 26 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 27 alone alone ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 30 det _ _ 30 female female NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 building build VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj 32 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 33 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 34 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 nest nest NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 9 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | people | bee | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bee=Topic | | 2 | **picture** | present | people | a honeybee hive | | | | often *property* | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent hive=Theme | | 3 | **be about** | present | 20,000 kinds of bee | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **live** | present | most of kinds | | | | | alone *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **build** | gerund | each female | female's own little nest | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset nest=Product | 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:305-bees-beyond-the-hive-bumblebees-solitary-bees-carpenter-bees-and-stingless-bees.lesson:0`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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