More animal myths: red rags, camel humps, porcupine arrows, toads and falling cats, sentence 15

Only honeybee workers usually die after stinging a person, because their barbed sting stays stuck; bumblebees and wasps can sting again and again.

Who acts: honeybee workers, sting, bumblebees, workers · What happens: die, sting, stay · To what, where: person

This is a sentence of the lesson «More animal myths: red rags, camel humps, porcupine arrows, toads and falling cats» 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 (honeybee workers, sting, bumblebees, workers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 workers	advmod
2	honeybee	honeybee	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 workers	compound
3	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 die	nsubj
4	usually	usually	ADV	_	5 die	advmod
5	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	after	after	SCONJ	_	7 stinging	mark
7	stinging	sting	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 die	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 person	det
9	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stinging	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stuck	punct
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 stays	mark
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 sting	nmod:poss
13	barbed	barb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 stays	amod
14	sting	sting	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stays	nsubj
15	stays	stay	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 stuck	nsubj
16	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 die	advcl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 bumblebees	punct
18	bumblebees	bumblebee	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 sting	nsubj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 wasps	cc
20	wasps	wasp	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 bumblebees	conj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 sting	aux
22	sting	sting	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 die	parataxis
23	again	again	ADV	_	22 sting	advmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 again	cc
25	again	again	ADV	_	23 again	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 die	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	die	present	honeybee workers			usually property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	sting	gerund	honeybee workers not said here	a person			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus person=Experiencer
3	stay		workers's sting				tree rules
4	sting	can	bumblebees and wasps		again		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	sting		workers = worker				nom sting «state transitive»: 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, 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:154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons.lesson:15.

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 ×2, 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.

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