Bees and wasps in the garden, sentence 8

A honeybee worker that stings a person usually dies, because its barbed sting stays in our skin; bumblebees and wasps can sting again and again.

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

This is a sentence of the lesson «Bees and wasps in the garden» 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 worker, sting, bumblebees, worker), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 worker	det
2	honeybee	honeybee	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 worker	compound
3	worker	worker	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dies	nsubj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 stings	nsubj
5	stings	sting	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 worker	acl:relcl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 person	det
7	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stings	obj
8	usually	usually	ADV	_	9 dies	advmod
9	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stays	punct
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 stays	mark
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 sting	nmod:poss
13	barbed	barb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 stays	amod
14	sting	sting	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stays	nsubj
15	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 dies	advcl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 skin	case
17	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 skin	nmod:poss
18	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stays	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 bumblebees	punct
20	bumblebees	bumblebee	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 sting	nsubj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 wasps	cc
22	wasps	wasp	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 bumblebees	conj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 sting	aux
24	sting	sting	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 dies	parataxis
25	again	again	ADV	_	24 sting	advmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 again	cc
27	again	again	ADV	_	25 again	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 dies	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sting	present	a honeybee worker	a person				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus person=Experiencer
2	die	present	a honeybee worker				usually property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	barb	participle						tree rules
4	stay	present	worker's sting		our skin			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in skin=Location
5	sting	can	bumblebees and wasps			again		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	sting		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:218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden.lesson:8.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4. 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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