Bees, wasps and stings, sentence 21
Disturbing a nest makes wasps or bees attack in large numbers.
Who acts: Disturbing, wasps · What happens: disturb, make, attack · To what, where: nest, wasps, large numbers
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 (Disturbing, wasps), 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 | Disturbing | disturb | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 makes | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 nest | det |
| 3 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Disturbing | obj |
| 4 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | wasps | wasp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 makes | obj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 bees | cc |
| 7 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wasps | conj |
| 8 | attack | attack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 makes | xcomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 numbers | case |
| 10 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 numbers | amod |
| 11 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 attack | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disturb | gerund | a nest | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus nest=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | make | present | Disturbing | wasps or bees | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | attack | infinitive | wasps or bees not said here | large numbers | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:21.
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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