--- title: Bees turn nectar into honey by passing it from bee to bee, adding bo… — Honey and the beekeeper's year · tree and pragmatics description: Bees turn nectar into honey by passing it from bee to bee, adding body chemicals and fanning it until most of the water is gone, and one worker makes only about a twelfth of a teaspoon in her life. Who acts: Bees, most, one worker. 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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 (Bees, most, one worker), 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:17 # text = Bees turn nectar into honey by passing it from bee to bee, adding body chemicals and fanning it until most of the water is gone, and one worker makes only about a twelfth of a teaspoon in her life. # 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Bees bee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 nectar nectar NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 into into ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 honey honey NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nmod 6 by by SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 passing pass VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 bee bee NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 bee bee NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 adding add VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:parataxis 15 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 chemicals chemical NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 fanning fan VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 conj _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 until until SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 21 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 26 nsubj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 gone gone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:parataxis 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 worker worker NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis 32 only only ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 33 about about ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 twelfth twelfth NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 teaspoon teaspoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **turn** | present | Bees | nectar | | honey | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent nectar=Theme into honey=Trajectory | | 2 | **pass** | gerund | Bees *not said here* | honey | bee | | | from bee | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme from bee=Initial\_Location to bee=Destination | | 3 | **add** *speech: assert* | gerund | Bees *not said here* | body chemicals | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chemical=Patient | | 4 | **fan** | gerund | Bees *not said here* | honey | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | present | most of the water | | | | | gone *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **make** | present | one worker | a twelfth of a teaspoon | | worker's life | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset twelfth=Product | 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:17`. **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 ×3, 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: [Honey and the beekeeper's year, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/344-honey-and-the-beekeepers-year/16/) - next →: [Honey and the beekeeper's year, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/344-honey-and-the-beekeepers-year/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/344-honey-and-the-beekeepers-year/)