--- title: Carpenter bees chew tunnels in wood for their nests and push the saw… — Bees beyond the hive: bumblebees, solitary bees,… · tree and pragmatics description: Carpenter bees chew tunnels in wood for their nests and push the sawdust out instead of eating it; the violet carpenter bee is one of Europe's biggest bees and has been reported spreading into Britain. Who acts: Carpenter bees, violet carpenter bee. 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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 (Carpenter bees, violet carpenter bee), 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:14 # text = Carpenter bees chew tunnels in wood for their nests and push the sawdust out instead of eating it; the violet carpenter bee is one of Europe's biggest bees and has been reported spreading into Britain. # 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): no change 1 Carpenter carpenter NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 bees bee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 chew chew VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 tunnels tunnel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 nests nest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 push push VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 sawdust sawdust NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 out out ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 15 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=SCONJ 17 mark _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 15 fixed _ _ 17 eating eat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 21 violet violet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 22 carpenter carpenter NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 bee bee NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 parataxis _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 27 Europe Europe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nmod:poss _ _ 28 's 's PART POS _ 27 case _ _ 29 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 30 amod _ _ 30 bees bee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 34 aux:pass _ _ 34 reported report VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 conj _ _ 35 spreading spread VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 34 xcomp _ _ 36 into into ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 38 . . 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 | **chew** | present | Carpenter bees | tunnels | | wood | | for tunnels's nests | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tunnel=Patient | | 2 | **push out** | infinitive | Carpenter bees *not said here* | the sawdust | | | | | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sawdust=Theme | | 3 | **eat** | gerund | Carpenter bees *not said here* | sawdust | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 4 | **is a** | present | the violet carpenter bee | one | | | | of Europe's biggest bees | tree rules | | 5 | **report** | present · perfect · passive | the violet carpenter bee *not said here* | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: clause=Theme | | 6 | **spread** | gerund | the violet carpenter bee *not said here* | | | Britain | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into britain=Destination | 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:14`. **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): no change. **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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