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title: Smoke hides the alarm smell of guard bees, and bees gorge on honey w… — Honey and the beekeeper's year · tree and pragmatics
description: Smoke hides the alarm smell of guard bees, and bees gorge on honey when they smell smoke, so they are fuller and calmer. Who acts: Smoke, bees, guard bees. A sentence of the lesson «Honey and the beekeeper's year» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Honey and the beekeeper's year, sentence 12

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Smoke hides the alarm smell of guard bees, and bees gorge on honey when they smell smoke, so they are fuller and calmer.

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**Who acts:** Smoke, bees, guard bees · **What happens:** hide, gorge, smell, be · **To what, where:** alarm smell, smoke

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Honey and the beekeeper's year» 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 (Smoke, bees, guard bees), 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:12
# text = Smoke hides the alarm smell of guard bees, and bees gorge on honey when they smell smoke, so they are fuller and calmer.
# 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): no change
1	Smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hides	hide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	alarm	alarm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	guard	guard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	gorge	gorge	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	smell	smell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
18	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	fuller	fuller	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	parataxis	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	calmer	calm	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | present | Smoke | the alarm smell of guard bees |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smell=Patient |
| 2 | **gorge** | present | bees |  |  |  |  | on honey | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on honey=Patient |
| 3 | **smell** | present | bees *= bee* | smoke |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer smoke=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** | present | bees *= bee* |  |  |  |  | fuller *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | bees *= bee* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **smell** |  | guard bees |  |  |  |  |  | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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**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:12`.

**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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