Bees, wasps and stings, sentence 7
A girl in Kent swatted at a wasp nest with a stick; dozens of wasps came out and stung her many times before she got indoors.
Who acts: girl, dozens · What happens: swat, come out, sting, get · To what, where: girl
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 (girl, dozens), 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 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 swatted | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Kent | case |
| 4 | Kent | Kent | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | swatted | swat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 nest | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 nest | det |
| 8 | wasp | wasp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 nest | compound |
| 9 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 swatted | obl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 stick | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 stick | det |
| 12 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 swatted | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
| 14 | dozens | dozen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 came | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 wasps | case |
| 16 | wasps | wasp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 dozens | nmod |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 swatted | parataxis |
| 18 | out | out | ADV | _ | 17 came | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 stung | cc |
| 20 | stung | sting | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 came | conj |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 stung | obj |
| 22 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 times | amod |
| 23 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 stung | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 26 got | mark |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 got | nsubj |
| 26 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 stung | advcl |
| 27 | indoors | indoors | ADV | _ | 26 got | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 swatted | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swat | past | a girl in Kent | with a stick; at a wasp nest | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent at nest=Patient with stick=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | come out | past | dozens of wasps | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | sting | past | dozens of wasps not said here | girl | time | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | get | past | girl | indoors property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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:7.
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): R5-strong ×1, 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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