How animals defend themselves, sentence 12

A honeybee's barbed sting gets stuck in thick skin like ours and tears away, so the bee dies; wasps have smooth stings and can sting again; the hive is full of the bee's sisters, so dying to protect it protects its family.

Who acts: barbed sting, bee, wasps, hive, honeybee · What happens: get, tear away, die, have, sting, be · To what, where: smooth stings, sting, family

This is a sentence of the lesson «How animals defend themselves» 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 (barbed sting, bee, wasps, hive), 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	5 sting	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 honeybee	case
4	barbed	barbed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sting	amod
5	sting	sting	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gets	nsubj
6	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gets	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 skin	case
9	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 skin	amod
10	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stuck	obl
11	like	like	ADP	_	12 ours	case
12	ours	our	PRON	Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 skin	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 tears	cc
14	tears	tear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 gets	conj
15	away	away	ADV	_	14 tears	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 dies	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	20 dies	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bee	det
19	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dies	nsubj
20	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 gets	parataxis
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 have	punct
22	wasps	wasp	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 have	nsubj
23	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 gets	parataxis
24	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 stings	amod
25	stings	sting	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 have	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 sting	cc
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 sting	aux
28	sting	sting	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 have	conj
29	again	again	ADV	_	28 sting	advmod
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 full	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 hive	det
32	hive	hive	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 full	nsubj
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 full	cop
34	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gets	parataxis
35	of	of	ADP	_	39 sisters	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 bee	det
37	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 sisters	nmod:poss
38	's	's	PART	_	37 bee	case
39	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 full	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 dying	punct
41	so	so	ADV	_	42 dying	advmod
42	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 gets	parataxis
43	to	to	PART	_	44 protect	mark
44	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 dying	advcl
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 protect	obj
46	protects	protect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 protect	ccomp
47	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 family	nmod:poss
48	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 protects	obj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 gets	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	a honeybee's barbed sting			stuck property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	tear away	present	a honeybee's barbed sting not said here			away property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	die	present	the bee				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	have	present	wasps	smooth stings			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sting=Patient
5	sting	can	wasps not said here		again		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	is	present	the hive			of the bee's sisters; full property	tree rules
7	die	gerund					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
8	protect	to-infinitive		sting			tree rules
9	protect	present		bee's family			vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Beneficiary
10	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:053-how-animals-defend-themselves.lesson:12.

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 ×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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