--- title: The varroa mite, about the size of a pinhead, feeds on bees and spre… — Honey and the beekeeper's year · tree and pragmatics description: The varroa mite, about the size of a pinhead, feeds on bees and spreads bee diseases; it came from Asia and spread around the world. Who acts: varroa mite, honey. 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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 (varroa mite, honey), 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:20 # text = The varroa mite, about the size of a pinhead, feeds on bees and spreads bee diseases; it came from Asia and spread around the world. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 varroa varroa NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 mite mite NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 about about ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 pinhead pinhead NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 feeds feed VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 bees bee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 spreads spread VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 17 bee bee NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 diseases disease NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj 22 from from ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 Asia Asia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 spread spread VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 26 around around ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feed** | present | the varroa mite | | | | | on bees | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on bee=Patient | | 2 | **spread** | present | the varroa mite *not said here* | bee diseases | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location disease=Theme | | 3 | **come** | past | honey | | | Asia | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from asia=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **spread** | past | honey *not said here* | | | the world | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around world=Location | 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:20`. **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): R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Honey and the beekeeper's year, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/344-honey-and-the-beekeepers-year/19/) - next →: [Honey and the beekeeper's year, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/344-honey-and-the-beekeepers-year/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/344-honey-and-the-beekeepers-year/)