--- title: A honeybee forager dances a figure of eight on the comb; the directi… — How animals talk · tree and pragmatics description: A honeybee forager dances a figure of eight on the comb; the direction of the waggle run shows the angle of the flowers from the Sun and its length shows the distance, worked out by Karl von Frisch, who shared a Nobel Prize in 1973. Who acts: honeybee forager, direction, length, Karl. 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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 forager, direction, length, Karl), 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:4 # text = A honeybee forager dances a figure of eight on the comb; the direction of the waggle run shows the angle of the flowers from the Sun and its length shows the distance, worked out by Karl von Frisch, who shared a Nobel Prize in 1973. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 honeybee honeybee NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 forager forager NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 dances dance VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 figure figure NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nmod _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 comb comb NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 direction direction NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 waggle waggle NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 run run NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 19 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 angle angle NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 25 from from ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 length length NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 distance distance NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 worked work VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:acl 36 out out ADP RP _ 35 compound:prt _ _ 37 by by ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 Karl Karl PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 obl:agent _ _ 39 von von PROPN NNP Foreign=Yes 38 flat:foreign _ _ 40 Frisch Frisch PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 flat _ _ 41 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 42 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 43 nsubj _ _ 43 shared share VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 acl:relcl _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 45 Nobel Nobel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 compound _ _ 46 Prize Prize PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 obj _ _ 47 in in ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 1973 1973 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 43 obl _ _ 49 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **dance** | present | a honeybee forager | a figure of eight | | the comb | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location figure=Theme | | 2 | **show** | present | the direction of the waggle run | the angle of the flowers from the Sun | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent angle=Recipient | | 3 | **show** | present | direction's length | the distance | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent distance=Recipient | | 4 | **work out** | participle | | the distance *not said here* | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **share** | past | Karl | a Nobel Prize | | 1973 | | | tree rules | 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. 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