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title: In autumn the beekeeper lifts the hive to check its weight, to be su… — Honey and the beekeeper's year · tree and pragmatics
description: In autumn the beekeeper lifts the hive to check its weight, to be sure the bees have enough food for winter. Who acts: beekeeper, bees. 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 21

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In autumn the beekeeper lifts the hive to check its weight, to be sure the bees have enough food for winter.

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**Who acts:** beekeeper, bees · **What happens:** lift, check, be, have · **To what, where:** hive, weight, enough food

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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 (beekeeper, bees), 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:21
# text = In autumn the beekeeper lifts the hive to check its weight, to be sure the bees have enough food for winter.
# 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
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	beekeeper	beekeeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lifts	lift	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hive	hive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:acl
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
15	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
19	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **lift** | present | the beekeeper | the hive |  |  | autumn |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hive=Theme |
| 2 | **check** | to-infinitive | the beekeeper *not said here* | honey's weight |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | the beekeeper *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | present | the bees | enough food |  |  |  | for winter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient |

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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:21`.

**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. **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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