--- title: A honeybee that has found flowers dances a figure of eight on the co… — How animals talk · tree and pragmatics description: A honeybee that has found flowers dances a figure of eight on the comb, and the angle and length of her waggle tell her sisters which way to fly and how far, a map made of movement. Who acts: honeybee, angle. 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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 (honeybee, angle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:050-how-animals-talk.lesson:1 # text = A honeybee that has found flowers dances a figure of eight on the comb, and the angle and length of her waggle tell her sisters which way to fly and how far, a map made of movement. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 050-how-animals-talk.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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 honeybee honeybee NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 4 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 acl:relcl _ _ 6 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 dances dance VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 figure figure NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nmod _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 comb comb NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod 15 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 angle angle NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 length length NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 waggle waggle NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:nmod 24 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 25 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 sisters sister NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 iobj _ _ 27 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 28 det _ _ 28 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 acl _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 32 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 33 advmod _ _ 33 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 30 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:advmod 34 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 map map NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 37 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 acl _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 movement movement NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | **find** | present · perfect | a honeybee | flowers | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Topic | | 2 | **dance** | present | a honeybee | a figure of eight | | the comb | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location figure=Theme | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the angle of honeybee's waggle and length | which way | honeybee's sisters | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient way=Topic | | 4 | **fly** | to-infinitive | the angle of honeybee's waggle and length *not said here* | which way *not said here* | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **make** | participle | | a map *not said here* | | | | of movement | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 6 | **waggle** | | honeybee | | | | | | nom waggle «act intransitive»: 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:050-how-animals-talk.lesson:1`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [How animals talk, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/50-how-animals-talk/0/) - next →: [How animals talk, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/50-how-animals-talk/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/50-how-animals-talk/)