Bees, wasps and stings, sentence 0

Bees and wasps sting to protect themselves and their nest, not to hunt people, so they rarely sting if they are left alone.

Who acts: Bees · What happens: sting, protect, not hunt, leave · To what, where: Bees, people

This is a sentence of the lesson «Bees, wasps and stings» of the everyday 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	Bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sting	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 wasps	cc
3	wasps	wasp	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Bees	conj
4	sting	sting	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 protect	mark
6	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sting	advcl
7	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 protect	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 nest	cc
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 nest	nmod:poss
10	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 themselves	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hunt	punct
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 hunt	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 hunt	mark
14	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 protect	conj
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 hunt	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sting	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	20 sting	advmod
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 sting	nsubj
19	rarely	rarely	ADV	_	20 sting	advmod
20	sting	sting	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sting	parataxis
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 left	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 left	nsubj:pass
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 left	aux:pass
24	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 sting	advcl
25	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 left	xcomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sting	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sting	present	Bees and wasps			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	protect	to-infinitive	Bees and wasps not said here	Bees = bee		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Beneficiary
3	not hunt	to-infinitive	Bees and wasps not said here	people		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme
4	sting	present	Bees = bee		rarely property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	leave a condition, not said to happen	present · passive		Bees = bee	alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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:everyday:024-bees-and-wasps.lesson:0.

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.

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