--- title: A honeybee's brain is about the size of a grain of sand, yet in test… — Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bee… · tree and pragmatics description: A honeybee's brain is about the size of a grain of sand, yet in tests bees learned to count landmarks up to about four to find sugar water. Who acts: brain, bees. A sentence of the lesson «Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughing rats and clever pigs» of the biology course of Mova --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Surprising brains: tool-using fish, co…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs/) / 0 # Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughing rats and clever pigs, sentence 0 A honeybee's brain is about the size of a grain of sand, yet in tests bees learned to count landmarks up to about four to find sugar water. **Who acts:** brain, bees · **What happens:** be, learn, count up, find · **To what, where:** size, tests, landmarks, sugar water This is a sentence of the lesson «Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughing rats and clever pigs» 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 (brain, bees), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs.lesson:0 # text = A honeybee's brain is about the size of a grain of sand, yet in tests bees learned to count landmarks up to about four to find sugar water. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs.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 ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 honeybee honeybee NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 about about ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 grain grain NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 yet yet CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 tests test NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 18 bees bee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 learned learn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 count count VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 22 landmarks landmark NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 23 up up ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 23 fixed _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:case 25 about about ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 obl _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 advcl _ _ 29 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a honeybee's brain | the size | | | | of a grain of sand; about *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **learn** | past | bees | | | tests | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **count up** | to-infinitive | bees *not said here* | landmarks | | | | four *obl* | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent landmark=Theme | | 4 | **find** | to-infinitive | bees *not said here* | sugar water | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Topic | 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:388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs.lesson:0`. **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 ×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: [Clever primates: tool-using chimps, Ka…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/387-clever-primates-tool-using-chimps-kanzi-the-bonobo-and-ayumu-s-memory/18/) - next →: [Surprising brains: tool-using fish, co…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs/)