Insects: six legs, three parts; ants, bees and wasps, sentence 4

Only females sting, and a honeybee that stings a person usually dies, so the wasp at the picnic is a far better reason to stay calm than to swat.

Who acts: females, honeybee, wasp · What happens: sting, die, be, stay, swat · To what, where: person, better reason

This is a sentence of the lesson «Insects: six legs, three parts; ants, bees and wasps» 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 (females, honeybee, wasp), 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	Only	only	ADV	_	2 females	advmod
2	females	female	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sting	nsubj
3	sting	sting	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 reason	parataxis
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dies	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 honeybee	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 honeybee	det
7	honeybee	honeybee	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dies	nsubj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 stings	nsubj
9	stings	sting	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 honeybee	acl:relcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 person	det
11	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stings	obj
12	usually	usually	ADV	_	13 dies	advmod
13	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sting	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 reason	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	17 wasp	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 wasp	det
17	wasp	wasp	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 reason	nsubj
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 picnic	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 picnic	det
20	picnic	picnic	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wasp	nmod
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 reason	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 reason	det
23	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 better	advmod
24	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 reason	amod
25	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
26	to	to	PART	_	27 stay	mark
27	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 reason	acl
28	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 stay	xcomp
29	than	than	SCONJ	_	31 swat	mark
30	to	to	PART	_	31 swat	mark
31	swat	swat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 calm	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sting	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sting	present	females			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	sting	present	a honeybee	a person		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus person=Experiencer
3	die	present	a honeybee		usually property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	is a	present	the wasp at the picnic	a better reason		tree rules
5	stay	to-infinitive			calm property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	swat	to-infinitive				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:036-insects-six-legs-ants-bees-and-wasps.lesson:4.

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): R6-punct-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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