Record-breakers: the most venomous and poisonous, sentence 14
Honeybees die after stinging people because the barbed stinger sticks in skin and tears out, but not when stinging other insects.
Who acts: Honeybees, barbed stinger · What happens: die, sting, stick, tear out, not sting · To what, where: people, skin, other insects
This is a sentence of the lesson «Record-breakers: the most venomous and poisonous» 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 (Honeybees, barbed stinger), 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 | Honeybees | honeybee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 die | nsubj |
| 2 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 stinging | mark |
| 4 | stinging | sting | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 die | advcl |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stinging | obj |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 sticks | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stinger | det |
| 8 | barbed | barb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stinger | amod |
| 9 | stinger | stinger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sticks | nsubj |
| 10 | sticks | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 die | advcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 skin | case |
| 12 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sticks | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 tears | cc |
| 14 | tears | tear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 sticks | conj |
| 15 | out | out | ADV | _ | 14 tears | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 stinging | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 stinging | cc |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 stinging | advmod |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 stinging | advmod |
| 20 | stinging | sting | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 die | advcl |
| 21 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 insects | amod |
| 22 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 stinging | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 die | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | present | Honeybees | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | sting | gerund | Honeybees not said here | people | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | stick | present | the barbed stinger | skin | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in skin=Destination | ||||
| 4 | tear out | present | the barbed stinger not said here | out property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not sting | gerund | Honeybees not said here | other insects | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus insect=Experiencer |
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:188-record-breakers-the-most-venomous-and-poisonous.lesson:14.
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): 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.
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