--- title: A bumblebee sitting still on a cold day may be cold or out of energy… — The garden in spring: buds, frogspawn, queen bum… · tree and pragmatics description: A bumblebee sitting still on a cold day may be cold or out of energy; moving it onto a flower is the best help, a little sugar water can be offered once, and honey must never be given because it can carry bee diseases. Who acts: bumblebee, moving. 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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 (bumblebee, moving), 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:8 # text = A bumblebee sitting still on a cold day may be cold or out of energy; moving it onto a flower is the best help, a little sugar water can be offered once, and honey must never be given because it can carry bee diseases. # 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): R2-punct-next ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 bumblebee bumblebee NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 3 sitting sit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 4 still still ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 11 cop _ _ 11 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 out out ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=11:punct 17 moving move VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 25 csubj _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 onto onto ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 25 amod _ _ 25 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj 26 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=11:punct 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 28 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 29 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj:pass _ _ 31 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 33 aux:pass _ _ 33 offered offer VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj 34 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 33 advmod _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 37 honey honey NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj:pass _ _ 38 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 39 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 41 advmod _ _ 40 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 41 aux:pass _ _ 41 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 conj _ _ 42 because because SCONJ IN _ 45 mark _ _ 43 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 44 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 45 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 advcl _ _ 46 bee bee NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 compound _ _ 47 diseases disease NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 obj _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | gerund | a bumblebee *not said here* | | | | still; day | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | may | a bumblebee | | | | | cold *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **move** | gerund | | bumblebee | | a flower | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme onto flower=Trajectory | | 4 | **is a** | present | moving | the best help | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **offer** | can · passive | | a little sugar water | | | | once *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme | | 6 | **not** **give** | must · passive | | honey | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 7 | **carry** | can | bumblebee | bee diseases | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disease=Theme | 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:333-the-garden-in-spring-buds-frogspawn-queen-bumblebees-and-nesting-birds.lesson:8`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The garden in spring: buds, frogspawn,…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/333-the-garden-in-spring-buds-frogspawn-queen-bumblebees-and-nesting-birds/7/) - next →: [The garden in spring: buds, frogspawn,…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/333-the-garden-in-spring-buds-frogspawn-queen-bumblebees-and-nesting-birds/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/333-the-garden-in-spring-buds-frogspawn-queen-bumblebees-and-nesting-birds/)