--- title: Bees were reported to learn that an empty card means less than one,… — Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bee… · tree and pragmatics description: Bees were reported to learn that an empty card means less than one, a bit like zero, though this is still argued. Who acts: empty card. 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 --- [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/11/) [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/) / 11 # Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughing rats and clever pigs, sentence 11 Bees were reported to learn that an empty card means less than one, a bit like zero, though this is still argued. **Who acts:** empty card · **What happens:** report, learn, mean, argue · **To what, where:** Bees, one, this · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (empty card), 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:11 # text = Bees were reported to learn that an empty card means less than one, a bit like zero, though this is still argued. # 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): no change 1 Bees bee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 reported report VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 7 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 empty empty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 card card NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 11 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 13 advmod _ _ 12 than than ADP IN _ 11 fixed _ _ 13 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 appos _ _ 17 like like ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 zero zero NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 though though SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 21 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ _ 23 still still ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 argued argue VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 parataxis _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **report** | past · passive | | Bees | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **learn** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **mean** | present | a empty card | one | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic | | 4 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present · passive | | this | | | still | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=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: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. 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