Animals in the news: true stories, fakes and how to read them, sentence 15

The Asian giant hornet, called the murder hornet in headlines, attacks honeybee hives and can kill a whole hive; it reached North America in 2019; scientists tied tiny trackers to hornets, found and destroyed the nests, and the United States declared it wiped out there in 2024.

Who acts: Asian giant hornet, hornet, scientists, United States · What happens: call, attack, kill, reach, tie, find · To what, where: murder hornet, honeybee hives, whole hive, North America, 2019, tiny trackers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Animals in the news: true stories, fakes and how to read them» 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 (Asian giant hornet, hornet, scientists, United States), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hornet	det
2	Asian	Asian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hornet	amod
3	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hornet	compound
4	hornet	hornet	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 attacks	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hornet	punct
6	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 hornet	acl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hornet	det
8	murder	murder	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hornet	compound
9	hornet	hornet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 called	xcomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 headlines	case
11	headlines	headline	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hornet	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hives	punct
13	attacks	attack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	honeybee	honeybee	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hives	compound
15	hives	hive	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 attacks	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 kill	cc
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 kill	aux
18	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 attacks	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 hive	det
20	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 hive	amod
21	hive	hive	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 kill	obj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 reached	punct
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 reached	nsubj
24	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 attacks	parataxis
25	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 America	compound
26	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 reached	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 2019	case
28	2019	2019	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	24 reached	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 tied	punct
30	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 tied	nsubj
31	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 attacks	parataxis
32	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 trackers	amod
33	trackers	tracker	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 tied	obj
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 hornets	case
35	hornets	hornet	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 tied	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 found	punct
37	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 tied	conj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 destroyed	cc
39	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 found	conj
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 nests	det
41	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 destroyed	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 declared	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 declared	cc
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 States	det
45	United	United	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 States	compound
46	States	State	PROPN	Number=Plur	47 declared	nsubj
47	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 tied	conj
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 declared	obj
49	wiped	wipe	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 declared	ccomp
50	out	out	ADV	_	49 wiped	advmod
51	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	49 wiped	advmod
52	in	in	ADP	_	53 2024	case
53	2024	2024	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	49 wiped	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 attacks	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	call	participle	the Asian giant hornet not said here	the murder hornet in headlines			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	attack	present	the Asian giant hornet	honeybee hives			vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hive=Patient
3	kill	can	the Asian giant hornet not said here	a whole hive			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hive=Theme
4	reach	past	hornet	North America	2019		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent america=Theme
5	tie	past	scientists	tiny trackers		to hornets	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent tracker=Patient to hornet=Co-Patient
6	find	past	scientists not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
7	destroy	past	scientists not said here	the nests			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Patient
8	declare speech: other	past	the United States	hornet			vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute clause=Theme
9	wipe out	past			2024; there	out property	vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in 2024=Trajectory

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:296-animals-in-the-news-true-stories-fakes-and-how-to-read-them.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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