Bees, wasps and stings, sentence 1
A honeybee's sting has tiny hooks like a fish-hook; it gets stuck in our skin and tears away from the bee, so the bee dies, while a wasp's smooth sting can be used again and again.
Who acts: sting, bee, honeybee, wasp · What happens: have, stick, tear away, die, use, sting · To what, where: tiny hooks, sting, skin, smooth sting
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 (sting, bee, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 honeybee | det |
| 2 | honeybee | honeybee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sting | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 honeybee | case |
| 4 | sting | sting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hooks | amod |
| 7 | hooks | hook | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 has | obj |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 hook | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 hook | det |
| 10 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hook | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 fish | punct |
| 12 | hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hooks | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 stuck | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 stuck | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | gets | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 stuck | aux:pass |
| 16 | stuck | stick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 has | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 skin | case |
| 18 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 skin | nmod:poss |
| 19 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stuck | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 tears | cc |
| 21 | tears | tear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 stuck | conj |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 tears | advmod |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 bee | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 bee | det |
| 25 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tears | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 dies | punct |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 dies | advmod |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 bee | det |
| 29 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 dies | nsubj |
| 30 | dies | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 has | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 used | punct |
| 32 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 40 used | mark |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 wasp | det |
| 34 | wasp | wasp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 sting | nmod:poss |
| 35 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 34 wasp | case |
| 36 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 sting | amod |
| 37 | sting | sting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 used | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 used | aux |
| 39 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 40 used | aux:pass |
| 40 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 dies | advcl |
| 41 | again | again | ADV | _ | 40 used | advmod |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 again | cc |
| 43 | again | again | ADV | _ | 41 again | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 has | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a honeybee's sting | tiny hooks | like a fish hook | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hook=Patient | |||
| 2 | stick | present · passive | sting | our skin | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in skin=Destination | ||||
| 3 | tear away | present | from the bee; away property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from bee=Trajectory | |||||
| 4 | die | present | the bee | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | use | can · passive | a wasp's smooth sting | again | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 6 | sting | a honeybee | nom sting «state transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | sting | a wasp | 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:everyday:024-bees-and-wasps.lesson:1.
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): 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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