Bees, wasps and stings, sentence 16
A sting inside the mouth or throat is dangerous because the swelling can block breathing.
Who acts: sting, swelling · What happens: be, block · To what, where: breathing
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, swelling), 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 sting | det |
| 2 | sting | sting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dangerous | nsubj |
| 3 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 5 mouth | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mouth | det |
| 5 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sting | nmod |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 throat | cc |
| 7 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mouth | conj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 dangerous | cop |
| 9 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 14 block | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 swelling | det |
| 12 | swelling | swelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 block | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 block | aux |
| 14 | block | block | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 dangerous | advcl |
| 15 | breathing | breathing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 block | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 dangerous | 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 | is | present | a sting inside the mouth or throat | dangerous property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | block | can | the swelling | breathing | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer breathing=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:16.
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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