--- title: On the first warm, calm day of spring she lifts the lid, puffs a lit… — Honey and the beekeeper's year · tree and pragmatics description: On the first warm, calm day of spring she lifts the lid, puffs a little smoke and looks for tiny eggs standing like grains of rice in the cells, the sign that the queen is laying. Who acts: she, tiny eggs, queen. 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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 (she, tiny eggs, queen), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:344-honey-and-the-beekeepers-year.lesson:1 # text = On the first warm, calm day of spring she lifts the lid, puffs a little smoke and looks for tiny eggs standing like grains of rice in the cells, the sign that the queen is laying. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 344-honey-and-the-beekeepers-year.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 ×5, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 On on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 3 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 7 amod _ _ 4 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:amod 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 calm calm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:obl 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 lifts lift VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:conj 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 lid lid NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct 15 puffs puff VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 smoke smoke NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 24 standing stand VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 acl _ _ 25 like like ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 grains grain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 rice rice NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 cells cell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:nmod 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 parataxis _ _ 35 that that SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 38 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 laying lay VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 34 acl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lift** | present | she | the lid | | | day | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Theme | | 2 | **puff** | present | she *not said here* | a little smoke | | | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location smoke=Source | | 3 | **look** | present | she *not said here* | | | | | for tiny eggs | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for egg=Theme | | 4 | **stand** | gerund | tiny eggs *not said here* | | | the cells | | like grains of rice | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cell=Location | | 5 | **lay** | present · progressive | the queen | the sign *not said here* | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Result | 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:344-honey-and-the-beekeepers-year.lesson:1`. **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 ×5, R6-punct-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: [Honey and the beekeeper's year, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/344-honey-and-the-beekeepers-year/0/) - next →: [Honey and the beekeeper's year, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/344-honey-and-the-beekeepers-year/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/344-honey-and-the-beekeepers-year/)