--- title: Beekeepers mark the queen with a coloured dot whose colour shows the… — Honey and the beekeeper's year · tree and pragmatics description: Beekeepers mark the queen with a coloured dot whose colour shows the year she was born, using white, yellow, red, green and blue in turn. Who acts: Beekeepers, colour, year. 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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 (Beekeepers, colour, year), 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:14 # text = Beekeepers mark the queen with a coloured dot whose colour shows the year she was born, using white, yellow, red, green and blue in turn. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 Beekeepers beekeeper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 mark mark VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 coloured coloured ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 dot dot NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 9 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl:unmarked _ _ 14 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 acl:relcl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 using use VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 19 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 conj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=25:conj 28 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 turn turn NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:obl 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mark** | present | Beekeepers | | the queen | | | with a coloured dot | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent queen=Destination with dot=Theme | | 2 | **show** | present | colour | | | | year | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **bear** | past · passive | the year *not said here* | colour | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **use** | gerund | Beekeepers *not said here* | white | | turn | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent white=Patient | 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: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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1. **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, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/344-honey-and-the-beekeepers-year/13/) - next →: [Honey and the beekeeper's year, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/344-honey-and-the-beekeepers-year/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/344-honey-and-the-beekeepers-year/)