Bees, wasps and stings, sentence 6
A boy in Kansas was stung by a bee and his lips and throat began to swell; his mum used his allergy pen and called 911, and doctors said acting fast saved him.
Who acts: bee, mum, doctors · What happens: sting, begin, swell, use, call, say · To what, where: boy, allergy pen, 911 · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (bee, mum, doctors), 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 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stung | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Kansas | case |
| 4 | Kansas | Kansas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stung | aux:pass |
| 6 | stung | sting | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 bee | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bee | det |
| 9 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stung | obl:agent |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 lips | cc |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 lips | nmod:poss |
| 12 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 bee | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 throat | cc |
| 14 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lips | conj |
| 15 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stung | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 swell | mark |
| 17 | swell | swell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 began | xcomp |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 used | punct |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 mum | nmod:poss |
| 20 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 used | nsubj |
| 21 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stung | conj |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 pen | nmod:poss |
| 23 | allergy | allergy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 pen | compound |
| 24 | pen | pen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 used | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 called | cc |
| 26 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 used | conj |
| 27 | 911 | 911 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 called | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 said | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 said | cc |
| 30 | doctors | doctor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 said | nsubj |
| 31 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 used | parataxis |
| 32 | acting | act | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 saved | nsubj |
| 33 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 34 saved | advmod |
| 34 | saved | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 said | ccomp |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 saved | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stung | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sting | past · passive | a bee and boy's lips and throat | a boy in Kansas | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | a bee and boy's lips and throat not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | swell | to-infinitive | a bee and boy's lips and throat not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | use | past | boy's mum | boy's allergy pen | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pen=Patient | ||||
| 5 | call | past | boy's mum not said here | 911 | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent 911=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | doctors | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | act | gerund | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 8 | save | past | boy | fast property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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:6.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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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