--- title: In autumn she checks for mites and weighs the hive, and in winter th… — Honey and the beekeeper's year · tree and pragmatics description: In autumn she checks for mites and weighs the hive, and in winter the bees huddle in a ball and shiver to keep warm, living on the honey they saved. Who acts: beekeeper, bees. 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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 (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:7 # text = In autumn she checks for mites and weighs the hive, and in winter the bees huddle in a ball and shiver to keep warm, living on the honey they saved. # 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 4 obl _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 checks check VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 mites mite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 weighs weigh VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 hive hive NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:det 16 bees bee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 huddle huddle VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 shiver shiver VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 advcl _ _ 25 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 xcomp _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 living live VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 advcl _ _ 28 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 honey honey NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 saved save VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **check** | present | beekeeper | | | | autumn | for mites | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent for mite=Attribute | | 2 | **weigh** | present | beekeeper *not said here* | the hive | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme hive=Value | | 3 | **huddle** | present | the bees | | | a ball | winter | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ball=Location | | 4 | **shiver** | present | the bees *not said here* | | | | | | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **keep** | to-infinitive | the bees *not said here* | | | | | warm *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **live** | gerund | the bees *not said here* | | | the honey | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on honey=Location | | 7 | **save** | past | bees *= bee* | the honey *not said here* | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honey=Theme | 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:7`. **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/). - ← previous: [Honey and the beekeeper's year, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/344-honey-and-the-beekeepers-year/6/) - next →: [Honey and the beekeeper's year, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/344-honey-and-the-beekeepers-year/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/344-honey-and-the-beekeepers-year/)