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title: Most of the world's 20,000 or so kinds of bee live alone; each femal… — Bees beyond the hive: bumblebees, solitary bees,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Most of the world's 20,000 or so kinds of bee live alone; each female digs or builds her own nest and leaves food for each egg, and mining bees may nest close together like a village. Who acts: Most, female, mining bees. A sentence of the lesson «Bees beyond the hive: bumblebees, solitary bees, carp
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# Bees beyond the hive: bumblebees, solitary bees, carpenter bees and stingless bees, sentence 11

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Most of the world's 20,000 or so kinds of bee live alone; each female digs or builds her own nest and leaves food for each egg, and mining bees may nest close together like a village.

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**Who acts:** Most, female, mining bees · **What happens:** live, dig, build, leave, nest · **To what, where:** own nest, food

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bees beyond the hive: bumblebees, solitary bees, carpenter bees and stingless bees» 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 (Most, female, mining bees), 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:11
# text = Most of the world's 20,000 or so kinds of bee live alone; each female digs or builds her own nest and leaves food for each egg, and mining bees may nest close together like a village.
# 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:nmod
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	20,000	20000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:appos
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:advmod
9	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
13	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=12:punct
15	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	female	female	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	digs	dig	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	builds	build	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	leaves	leave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
25	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
28	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	mining	mining	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
33	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	nest	nest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
35	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	36	advmod	_	_
36	together	together	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
37	like	like	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1: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 | **live** | present | Most  20,000 kinds of the world of bee |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **dig** | present | each female |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **build** | present | each female *not said here* | bee's own nest |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset nest=Product |
| 4 | **leave** | present | each female *not said here* | food |  |  |  | for each egg | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent food=Theme for egg=Recipient |
| 5 | **nest** | may | mining bees |  |  |  |  | like a village; together *property* | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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