Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, blackberries, cacti, fire ants and bee stings, sentence 16
A honeybee usually dies after stinging a person, because its barbed sting gets stuck in the skin.
Who acts: honeybee, barbed sting · What happens: die, sting, barb, get · To what, where: person
This is a sentence of the lesson «Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, blackberries, 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 (honeybee, barbed sting), 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 dies | nsubj |
| 3 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 4 dies | advmod |
| 4 | dies | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 6 stinging | mark |
| 6 | stinging | sting | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 dies | advcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 person | det |
| 8 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stinging | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gets | punct |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 14 gets | mark |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 sting | nmod:poss |
| 12 | barbed | barb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 sting | amod |
| 13 | sting | sting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gets | nsubj |
| 14 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 dies | advcl |
| 15 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 gets | xcomp |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 skin | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 skin | det |
| 18 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stuck | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dies | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | present | a honeybee | usually property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | sting | gerund | a honeybee not said here | a person | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus person=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | barb | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | get | present | honeybee's barbed sting | stuck property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | sting | 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:326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants.lesson:16.
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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