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title: Honeybees do not hibernate; in winter they huddle in a ball and shiv… — Honey and the beekeeper's year · tree and pragmatics
description: Honeybees do not hibernate; in winter they huddle in a ball and shiver their flight muscles to make heat, and winter workers can live several months. Who acts: Honeybees, bees, winter workers. A sentence of the lesson «Honey and the beekeeper's year» of the biology course of Mova's primary school wi
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# Honey and the beekeeper's year, sentence 22

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Honeybees do not hibernate; in winter they huddle in a ball and shiver their flight muscles to make heat, and winter workers can live several months.

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**Who acts:** Honeybees, bees, winter workers · **What happens:** not hibernate, huddle, shiver, make, live · **To what, where:** ball, flight muscles, heat

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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 (Honeybees, bees, winter workers), 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:22
# text = Honeybees do not hibernate; in winter they huddle in a ball and shiver their flight muscles to make heat, and winter workers can live several months.
# 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Honeybees	honeybee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	hibernate	hibernate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	huddle	huddle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	shiver	shiver	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	muscles	muscle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advcl
20	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
27	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **not** **hibernate** | present · do-support | Honeybees |  |  |  |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location |
| 2 | **huddle** | present | bees *= bee* |  |  | a ball | winter |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ball=Location |
| 3 | **shiver** | present | bees *= bee* *not said here* | bees's flight muscles |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive | bees *= bee* *not said here* | heat |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset heat=Product |
| 5 | **live** | can | winter workers |  |  |  | month |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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**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 ×2, 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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