--- title: The honey bees that fly out to collect pollen and nectar are all fem… — The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantula… · tree and pragmatics description: The honey bees that fly out to collect pollen and nectar are all female workers, and they do a waggle dance: its angle shows the direction of flowers compared with the sun and the length of the wiggle shows how far; Karl von Frisch won a Nobel Prize for this. 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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 (honey bees, bees, angle, Karl), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:097-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions.lesson:10 # text = The honey bees that fly out to collect pollen and nectar are all female workers, and they do a waggle dance: its angle shows the direction of flowers compared with the sun and the length of the wiggle shows how far; Karl von Frisch won a Nobel Prize for this. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 097-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions.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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 honey honey NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 bees bee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 4 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 fly fly VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 6 out out ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 collect collect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 9 pollen pollen NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 nectar nectar NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 13 all all ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 female female ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 workers worker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 waggle waggle NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 dance dance NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 23 : : PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 24 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 angle angle NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 parataxis _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 direction direction NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ _ 31 compared compare VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 acl _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 length length NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 wiggle wiggle NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 41 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 42 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 43 advmod _ _ 43 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 41 advmod _ _ 44 ; ; PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 45 Karl Karl PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 nsubj _ _ 46 von von X FW Foreign=Yes 45 dep _ _ 47 Frisch Frisch PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 flat _ _ 48 won win VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 49 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 50 Nobel Nobel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 51 compound _ _ 51 Prize Prize PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 obj _ _ 52 for for ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 53 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 48 obl _ _ 54 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fly out** | present | the honey bees | | | | | out *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **collect** | to-infinitive | the honey bees *not said here* | pollen and nectar | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pollen=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | present | the honey bees | female workers | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **do** | present | bees *= bee* | a waggle dance | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Eventuality | | 5 | **show** | present | dance's angle | the direction of flowers and the length of the wiggle | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent direction=Recipient | | 6 | **compare** | participle | | flowers *not said here* | | | | with the sun | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with sun=Co-Patient | | 7 | **show** | present | dance's angle *not said here* | | | | | far *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **win** | past | Karl | a Nobel Prize | | | | for this | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent prize=Theme for this=Beneficiary | 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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