--- title: Bumblebee colonies are small, often a few dozen to a few hundred bee… — Bees beyond the hive: bumblebees, solitary bees,… · tree and pragmatics description: Bumblebee colonies are small, often a few dozen to a few hundred bees; only the new queens survive the winter, sleeping underground, and in spring each queen starts a new nest alone. Who acts: Bumblebee colonies, new queens, queen. 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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 (Bumblebee colonies, new queens, queen), 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:10 # text = Bumblebee colonies are small, often a few dozen to a few hundred bees; only the new queens survive the winter, sleeping underground, and in spring each queen starts a new nest alone. # 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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Bumblebee bumblebee NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 colonies colony NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 often often ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 dozen dozen NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:det 12 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:amod 13 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 bees bee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 only only ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:advmod 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 queens queen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 survive survive VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 sleeping sleep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 advcl _ _ 25 underground underground ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 30 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 31 det _ _ 31 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 starts start VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 nest nest NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 36 alone alone ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **is** | present | Bumblebee colonies | | | | | small *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **survive** | present | the new queens | | | | winter | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **sleep** | gerund | the new queens *not said here* | | | | | underground *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **start** | present | each queen | a new nest | | | spring | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Eventuality | 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:10`. **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 ×3, 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/). - ← previous: [Bees beyond the hive: bumblebees, soli…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/305-bees-beyond-the-hive-bumblebees-solitary-bees-carpenter-bees-and-stingless-bees/9/) - next →: [Bees beyond the hive: bumblebees, soli…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/305-bees-beyond-the-hive-bumblebees-solitary-bees-carpenter-bees-and-stingless-bees/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/305-bees-beyond-the-hive-bumblebees-solitary-bees-carpenter-bees-and-stingless-bees/)