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title: Bees carry it home, pass it from bee to bee and fan it with their wi… — Honey and the beekeeper's year · tree and pragmatics
description: Bees carry it home, pass it from bee to bee and fan it with their wings until most of the water is gone. Who acts: Bees, most. 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 4

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Bees carry it home, pass it from bee to bee and fan it with their wings until most of the water is gone.

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**Who acts:** Bees, most · **What happens:** carry, pass, fan, be · **To what, where:** colony

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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 (Bees, most), 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:4
# text = Bees carry it home, pass it from bee to bee and fan it with their wings until most of the water is gone.
# 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	Bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	home	home	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	pass	pass	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	fan	fan	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
18	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
19	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	24	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	advcl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **carry** | present | Bees | colony |  |  |  | home *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **pass** | infinitive | Bees *not said here* | colony |  |  |  | from bee to bee | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme from bee=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **fan** | infinitive | Bees *not said here* | colony |  |  |  | with bees's wings | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | most of the water |  |  |  |  | gone *property* | tree rules |

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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:4`.

**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/).

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