Thinking like an animal, sentence 17
A honeybee's barbed sting gets stuck in the stretchy skin of mammals, but not in the hard bodies of other insects.
Who acts: barbed sting, honeybee · What happens: get, sting
This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking like an animal» 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 (barbed sting, honeybee), 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 honeybee | det |
| 2 | honeybee | honeybee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sting | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 honeybee | case |
| 4 | barbed | barb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sting | amod |
| 5 | sting | sting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gets | nsubj |
| 6 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 gets | xcomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 skin | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 skin | det |
| 10 | stretchy | stretchy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 skin | amod |
| 11 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stuck | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 mammals | case |
| 13 | mammals | mammal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 skin | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 skin | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 bodies | cc |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 bodies | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 bodies | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bodies | det |
| 19 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 bodies | amod |
| 20 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 skin | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 insects | case |
| 22 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 insects | amod |
| 23 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 bodies | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gets | 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 | get | present | a honeybee's barbed sting | stuck property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | sting | a honeybee | nom sting «state transitive»: poss=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:030-thinking-like-an-animal.lesson:17.
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. 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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