Bees, wasps and stings, sentence 18

Never poke, throw things at or try to knock down a bees' or wasps' nest.

Who acts: you · What happens: not poke, throw, try, knock down · To what, where: things, nest

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 (you), 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	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 poke	advmod
2	poke	poke	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 throw	punct
4	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 poke	conj
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 throw	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	4 throw	obl
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 try	cc
8	try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 poke	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 knock	mark
10	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 try	xcomp
11	down	down	ADP	_	10 knock	compound:prt
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bees	det
13	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 nest	nmod:poss
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 bees	punct
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 wasps	cc
16	wasps	wasp	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 bees	conj
17	'	's	PART	_	16 wasps	case
18	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 knock	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 poke	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not poke	imperative	you not said here		vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	throw	infinitive	you not said here	things	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
3	try	infinitive	you not said here		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	knock down not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	a bees or wasps's nest	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent nest=Patient

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:18.

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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