--- title: Leafcutter bees cut neat circles from leaves to wrap each egg and it… — Bees beyond the hive: bumblebees, solitary bees,… · tree and pragmatics description: Leafcutter bees cut neat circles from leaves to wrap each egg and its food like a parcel; they do not eat the leaves, and the plant barely notices. Who acts: Leafcutter bees, circles, plant. A sentence of the lesson «Bees beyond the hive: bumblebees, solitary bees, carpenter bees and stingless bees» --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/305-bees-beyond-the-hive-bumblebees-solitary-bees-carpenter-bees-and-stingless-bees/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Bees beyond the hive: bumblebees, soli…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/305-bees-beyond-the-hive-bumblebees-solitary-bees-carpenter-bees-and-stingless-bees/) / 13 # Bees beyond the hive: bumblebees, solitary bees, carpenter bees and stingless bees, sentence 13 Leafcutter bees cut neat circles from leaves to wrap each egg and its food like a parcel; they do not eat the leaves, and the plant barely notices. **Who acts:** Leafcutter bees, circles, plant · **What happens:** cut, wrap, not eat, notice · **To what, where:** neat circles, leaves, egg 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 (Leafcutter bees, circles, plant), 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:13 # text = Leafcutter bees cut neat circles from leaves to wrap each egg and its food like a parcel; they do not eat the leaves, and the plant barely notices. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Leafcutter leafcutter NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 bees bee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 cut cut VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 neat neat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 circles circle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 wrap wrap VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 10 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 11 det _ _ 11 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 15 like like ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 parcel parcel NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nmod 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 20 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 22 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 29 barely barely ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 notices notice VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cut** | present | Leafcutter bees | neat circles | | leaves | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent circle=Product from leaf=Material | | 2 | **wrap** | to-infinitive | Leafcutter bees *not said here* | each egg and egg's food | | | | like a parcel | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent egg=Theme | | 3 | **not** **eat** | present · do-support | circles *= circle* | the leaves | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient | | 4 | **notice** | present | the plant | | | | | barely *property* | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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:13`. **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, 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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