--- title: A honeybee's waggle dance shows the direction of flowers compared wi… — Insects: six legs, three parts; ants, bees and w… · tree and pragmatics description: A honeybee's waggle dance shows the direction of flowers compared with the sun and, by the length of the waggle, how far away they are. Who acts: waggle dance, Ants, honeybee. 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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 (waggle dance, Ants, honeybee), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:036-insects-six-legs-ants-bees-and-wasps.lesson:11 # text = A honeybee's waggle dance shows the direction of flowers compared with the sun and, by the length of the waggle, how far away they are. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 036-insects-six-legs-ants-bees-and-wasps.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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 honeybee honeybee NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 waggle waggle NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 dance dance NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 direction direction NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 11 compared compare VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 by by ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 length length NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 waggle waggle NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 26 advmod _ _ 25 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 26 advmod _ _ 26 away away ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 27 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 28 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **show** | present | a honeybee's waggle dance | the direction of flowers | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent direction=Recipient | | 2 | **compare** | participle | | flowers *not said here* | | | | with the sun | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with sun=Co-Patient | | 3 | **is** | present | Ants *= ant* | | | | | away, far *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **dance** | | a honeybee | | | | | | nom dance «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:036-insects-six-legs-ants-bees-and-wasps.lesson:11`. **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): no change. **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: [Insects: six legs, three parts; ants,…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/36-insects-six-legs-ants-bees-and-wasps/10/) - next →: [Insects: six legs, three parts; ants,…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/36-insects-six-legs-ants-bees-and-wasps/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/36-insects-six-legs-ants-bees-and-wasps/)