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title: An extractor is a drum that spins honey out of the uncapped cells, s… — Honey and the beekeeper's year · tree and pragmatics
description: An extractor is a drum that spins honey out of the uncapped cells, saving the wax comb so the bees can refill it, and a strong hive in a good summer can give about 20 kilograms or more. Who acts: extractor, drum, bees, strong hive. A sentence of the lesson «Honey and the beekeeper's year» of the bio
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# Honey and the beekeeper's year, sentence 16

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An extractor is a drum that spins honey out of the uncapped cells, saving the wax comb so the bees can refill it, and a strong hive in a good summer can give about 20 kilograms or more.

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**Who acts:** extractor, drum, bees, strong hive · **What happens:** be, spin, save, refill, give about · **To what, where:** drum, honey, uncapped cells, wax comb, 20 kilograms

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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 (extractor, drum, bees, strong hive), 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:16
# text = An extractor is a drum that spins honey out of the uncapped cells, saving the wax comb so the bees can refill it, and a strong hive in a good summer can give about 20 kilograms or more.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	extractor	extractor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	drum	drum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	spins	spin	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	uncapped	uncap	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
13	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	saving	save	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	wax	wax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	comb	comb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	refill	refill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	hive	hive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
34	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
36	about	about	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
37	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
38	kilograms	kilogram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:obl
39	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	38	conj	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a extractor | a drum |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **spin** | present | a drum | honey |  | the uncapped cells |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent honey=Theme out cell=Trajectory |
| 3 | **save** | gerund | a drum *not said here* | the wax comb |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comb=Theme |
| 4 | **refill** | can | the bees | honey |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **give about** | can | a strong hive in a good summer | 20 kilograms |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kilogram=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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**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:16`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×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/).

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