Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thorns, cacti, fire ants and bee stings, sentence 8

A honeybee's sting has tiny barbs, like a fish hook, so it gets stuck in our skin and the bee usually dies.

Who acts: sting, bee, honeybee · What happens: have, stick, die, sting · To what, where: tiny barbs, sting, skin

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 (sting, 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	5 has	nsubj
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 barbs	amod
7	barbs	barb	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 has	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hook	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	12 hook	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 hook	det
11	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hook	compound
12	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 barbs	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 stuck	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	17 stuck	advmod
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 stuck	nsubj:pass
16	gets	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 stuck	aux:pass
17	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 has	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 skin	case
19	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 skin	nmod:poss
20	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stuck	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 bee	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 bee	det
23	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 dies	nsubj
24	usually	usually	ADV	_	25 dies	advmod
25	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 stuck	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 has	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	a honeybee's sting	tiny barbs		like a fish hook	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent barb=Patient
2	stick	present · passive		sting	our skin		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in skin=Destination
3	die	present	the bee			usually property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	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: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): no change. 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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