--- title: Bees make honey from nectar by passing it between workers and fannin… — Insects: six legs, three parts; ants, bees and w… · tree and pragmatics description: Bees make honey from nectar by passing it between workers and fanning it until most of the water is gone; one worker makes only about a twelfth of a teaspoon in her life, and honey left too watery can go mouldy. Who acts: Bees, most, one worker, honey. 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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 (Bees, most, one worker, honey), 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:12 # text = Bees make honey from nectar by passing it between workers and fanning it until most of the water is gone; one worker makes only about a twelfth of a teaspoon in her life, and honey left too watery can go mouldy. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Bees bee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 3 honey honey NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 nectar nectar NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nmod 6 by by SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 passing pass VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 between between ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 workers worker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 fanning fan VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 until until SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 15 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 20 nsubj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 gone gone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:parataxis 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 worker worker NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 25 only only ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 26 about about ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 twelfth twelfth NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 teaspoon teaspoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=37:punct 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 honey honey NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 38 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 acl _ _ 39 too too ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 watery watery ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 xcomp _ _ 41 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 42 go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 43 mouldy mouldy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 xcomp _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=42:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present | Bees | honey | | nectar | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent honey=Product from nectar=Material | | 2 | **pass** | gerund | Bees *not said here* | honey | | workers | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme between worker=Destination | | 3 | **fan** | gerund | Bees *not said here* | honey | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | most of the water | | | | | gone *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **make** | present | one worker | a twelfth of a teaspoon | | dance's life | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset twelfth=Product | | 6 | **leave** | participle | | honey *not said here* | | | | watery *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **go** | can | honey | | | | | mouldy *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:036-insects-six-legs-ants-bees-and-wasps.lesson:12`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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. 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