Bees, wasps and stings, sentence 8
Bees and wasps sting mainly to defend themselves and their nest.
Who acts: Bees · What happens: sting, defend · To what, where: Bees
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 (Bees), 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 | Bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sting | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 wasps | cc |
| 3 | wasps | wasp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Bees | conj |
| 4 | sting | sting | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | mainly | mainly | ADV | _ | 4 sting | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 defend | mark |
| 7 | defend | defend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sting | advcl |
| 8 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 defend | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 nest | cc |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 nest | nmod:poss |
| 11 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 themselves | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sting | 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 | sting | present | Bees and wasps | mainly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | defend | to-infinitive | Bees and wasps not said here | Bees = bee | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Beneficiary |
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:8.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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.
See the release 0.4.
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