Bees beyond the hive: bumblebees, solitary bees, carpenter bees and stingless bees, sentence 6
Some bees in warm countries can hardly sting at all and bite instead.
Who acts: bees · What happens: sting, bite
This is a sentence of the lesson «Bees beyond the hive: bumblebees, solitary bees, carpenter bees and stingless bees» 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 (bees), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 bees | det |
| 2 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sting | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 countries | case |
| 4 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 countries | amod |
| 5 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bees | nmod |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 sting | aux |
| 7 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 8 sting | advmod |
| 8 | sting | sting | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 all | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 sting | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 bite | cc |
| 12 | bite | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sting | conj |
| 13 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 12 bite | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sting | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sting | can | some bees in warm countries | at all; hardly property | vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Patient at all=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | bite | infinitive | some bees in warm countries not said here | instead property | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=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:305-bees-beyond-the-hive-bumblebees-solitary-bees-carpenter-bees-and-stingless-bees.lesson:6.
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): no change. 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.
See the release 0.4.
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