Bees: the waggle dance, the hive and honey, sentence 10
A honeybee's sting has barbs that stick in thick mammal skin, so the bee dies, and the left-behind sting keeps pumping venom, so scraping it out quickly helps.
Who acts: sting, barbs, bee, left sting, scraping, honeybee · What happens: have, stick, die, keep, pump, scrape out · To what, where: barbs, thick mammal skin, venom
This is a sentence of the lesson «Bees: the waggle dance, the hive and honey» 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 (sting, barbs, bee, left sting), 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 | 2 honeybee | det |
| 2 | honeybee | honeybee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sting | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 honeybee | case |
| 4 | sting | sting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | barbs | barb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 has | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 stick | nsubj |
| 8 | stick | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 barbs | acl:relcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 skin | case |
| 10 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 skin | amod |
| 11 | mammal | mammal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 skin | compound |
| 12 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stick | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 dies | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 dies | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bee | det |
| 16 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dies | nsubj |
| 17 | dies | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 has | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 keeps | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 left | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sting | det |
| 21 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 sting | amod |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 sting | punct |
| 23 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 24 sting | advmod |
| 24 | sting | sting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 keeps | nsubj |
| 25 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 dies | conj |
| 26 | pumping | pump | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 keeps | xcomp |
| 27 | venom | venom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 pumping | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 helps | punct |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 34 helps | advmod |
| 30 | scraping | scrape | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 helps | csubj |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 scraping | obj |
| 32 | out | out | ADP | _ | 30 scraping | compound:prt |
| 33 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 30 scraping | advmod |
| 34 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 has | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 has | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a honeybee's sting | barbs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent barb=Patient | ||||
| 2 | stick | present | barbs | thick mammal skin | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in skin=Destination | ||||
| 3 | die | present | the bee | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | keep | present | the left sting | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | pump | gerund | the left sting not said here | venom | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent venom=Theme | ||||
| 6 | scrape out | gerund | venom | quickly property | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 7 | help | present | scraping | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | sting | a honeybee | 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:239-bees-the-waggle-dance-the-hive-and-honey.lesson:10.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×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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