Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thorns, cacti, fire ants and bee stings, sentence 19
A honeybee's sting is barbed and gets stuck in skin, so the bee usually dies after stinging a person.
Who acts: bee, honeybee · What happens: barb, get, die, sting · To what, where: sting, person
This is a sentence of the lesson «Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thorns, cacti, fire ants and bee 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, 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 | 4 sting | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 honeybee | case |
| 4 | sting | sting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 barbed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 barbed | aux:pass |
| 6 | barbed | barb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 gets | cc |
| 8 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 barbed | conj |
| 9 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 gets | xcomp |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 skin | case |
| 11 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stuck | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 dies | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 dies | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bee | det |
| 15 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dies | nsubj |
| 16 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 17 dies | advmod |
| 17 | dies | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 barbed | parataxis |
| 18 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 19 stinging | mark |
| 19 | stinging | sting | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 dies | advcl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 person | det |
| 21 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stinging | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 barbed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | barb | present · passive | a honeybee's sting | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | get | present | stuck property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | die | present | the bee | usually property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | sting | gerund | the bee not said here | a person | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus person=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | 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:301-tsunamis-lambs-plants-ants-and-stings.lesson:19.
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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/301-tsunamis-lambs-plants-ants-and-stings/19/