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title: Red mason bees fill hollow stems with a row of cells, each with poll… — Bees beyond the hive: bumblebees, solitary bees,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Red mason bees fill hollow stems with a row of cells, each with pollen and an egg, sealed by mud walls; eggs that become males are laid nearest the door, and the front bees come out first in spring. Who acts: Red mason bees, eggs, front bees. A sentence of the lesson «Bees beyond the hive: bumblebee
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# Bees beyond the hive: bumblebees, solitary bees, carpenter bees and stingless bees, sentence 12

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Red mason bees fill hollow stems with a row of cells, each with pollen and an egg, sealed by mud walls; eggs that become males are laid nearest the door, and the front bees come out first in spring.

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**Who acts:** Red mason bees, eggs, front bees · **What happens:** fill, seal, become, lay, come out · **To what, where:** hollow stems, row, males, eggs

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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 (Red mason bees, eggs, front 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:12
# text = Red mason bees fill hollow stems with a row of cells, each with pollen and an egg, sealed by mud walls; eggs that become males are laid nearest the door, and the front bees come out first in spring.
# 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 ×1
1	Red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	mason	mason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fill	fill	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	hollow	hollow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	stems	stem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	obl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	pollen	pollen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	sealed	seal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:acl
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	become	become	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
28	males	male	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	xcomp	_	_
29	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
31	nearest	nearest	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
39	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
40	out	out	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
41	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	39	advmod	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fill** | present | Red mason bees | hollow stems |  |  |  | with a row of cells; each *obl* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent stem=Patient with row=Instrument |
| 2 | **seal** | participle |  | a row of cells *not said here* |  |  |  | by mud walls | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **become** | present | eggs | males |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **lay** | present · passive |  | eggs |  |  |  | nearest the door | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
| 5 | **come out** | present | the front bees |  |  |  | spring | first, out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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**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:12`.

**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. **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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