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title: By midsummer the colony can grow from about 10,000 bees to 50,000 or… — Honey and the beekeeper's year · tree and pragmatics
description: By midsummer the colony can grow from about 10,000 bees to 50,000 or more. Who acts: colony. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Honey and the beekeeper's year, sentence 2

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By midsummer the colony can grow from about 10,000 bees to 50,000 or more.

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**Who acts:** colony · **What happens:** grow

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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 (colony), 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:2
# text = By midsummer the colony can grow from about 10,000 bees to 50,000 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): no change
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	midsummer	midsummer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	colony	colony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	10,000	10000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	50,000	50000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	conj	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | can | the colony |  |  |  |  | by midsummer; from 10,000 bees; to 50,000 | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient by midsummer=Extent from bee=Initial\_State to 50000=Result |

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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:2`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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