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title: In tests honeybees learned to fly past a certain number of landmarks… — Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bee… · tree and pragmatics
description: In tests honeybees learned to fly past a certain number of landmarks, up to about four, to find sugar water. Who acts: honeybees. 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 with its depend
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# Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughing rats and clever pigs, sentence 10

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In tests honeybees learned to fly past a certain number of landmarks, up to about four, to find sugar water.

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**Who acts:** honeybees · **What happens:** learn, fly, find · **To what, where:** tests, certain number, sugar water

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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 (honeybees), 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:10
# text = In tests honeybees learned to fly past a certain number of 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	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	tests	test	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
3	honeybees	honeybee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	learned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	past	past	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	landmarks	landmark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	about	about	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj
21	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **learn** | past | honeybees |  |  | tests |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **fly** | to-infinitive | honeybees *not said here* |  |  | a certain number of landmarks up four |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past number=Trajectory |
| 3 | **find** | to-infinitive | honeybees *not said here* | sugar water |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Topic |

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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:388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs.lesson:10`.

**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/).

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