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title: A big bumblebee flying low in early spring is a queen, the only bumb… — The garden in spring: buds, frogspawn, queen bum… · tree and pragmatics
description: A big bumblebee flying low in early spring is a queen, the only bumblebee that survives the winter; she searches for an old mouse hole or a tuft of grass to start a nest, which will soon hold dozens of workers. Who acts: big bumblebee, only bumblebee, frog, nest. A sentence of the lesson «The garden
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# The garden in spring: buds, frogspawn, queen bumblebees and nesting birds, sentence 7

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A big bumblebee flying low in early spring is a queen, the only bumblebee that survives the winter; she searches for an old mouse hole or a tuft of grass to start a nest, which will soon hold dozens of workers.

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**Who acts:** big bumblebee, only bumblebee, frog, nest · **What happens:** fly, be, survive, search, start, hold · **To what, where:** queen, nest, dozens

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The garden in spring: buds, frogspawn, queen bumblebees and nesting birds» 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 (big bumblebee, only bumblebee, frog, nest), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:333-the-garden-in-spring-buds-frogspawn-queen-bumblebees-and-nesting-birds.lesson:7
# text = A big bumblebee flying low in early spring is a queen, the only bumblebee that survives the winter; she searches for an old mouse hole or a tuft of grass to start a nest, which will soon hold dozens of workers.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 333-the-garden-in-spring-buds-frogspawn-queen-bumblebees-and-nesting-birds.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bumblebee	bumblebee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	acl	_	_
5	low	low	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	bumblebee	bumblebee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	survives	survive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	searches	search	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	tuft	tuft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	41	nsubj	_	_
39	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
40	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	41	advmod	_	_
41	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	acl:relcl	_	_
42	dozens	dozen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nmod	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **fly** | gerund | a big bumblebee *not said here* |  |  |  | spring | low *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a big bumblebee | a queen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **survive** | present | the only bumblebee |  |  |  | winter |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **search** | present | frog |  |  |  |  | for a old mouse hole or a tuft of grass | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for hole=Theme |
| 5 | **start** | to-infinitive | frog *not said here* | a nest |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Eventuality |
| 6 | **hold** | future | a nest | dozens of workers |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dozen=Theme |

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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): 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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