Burns, sunburn and stings, sentence 12
A honeybee's barbed sting stays in the skin and is scraped out sideways with a fingernail or card as soon as possible, because its venom sac keeps pumping while it stays in.
Who acts: barbed sting, venom sac, sac, honeybee · What happens: stay, scrape out, keep, pump, stay in, sting · To what, where: skin
This is a sentence of the lesson «Burns, sunburn and stings» of the medicine 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, venom sac, sac, 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 stays | nsubj |
| 6 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 skin | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 skin | det |
| 9 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stays | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 scraped | cc |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 scraped | aux:pass |
| 12 | scraped | scrape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 stays | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 scraped | compound:prt |
| 14 | sideways | sideways | ADV | _ | 12 scraped | advmod |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 fingernail | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 fingernail | det |
| 17 | fingernail | fingernail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 scraped | obl |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 card | cc |
| 19 | card | card | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fingernail | conj |
| 20 | as | as | ADV | _ | 21 soon | advmod |
| 21 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 scraped | advmod |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 possible | mark |
| 23 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 soon | advcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 keeps | punct |
| 25 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 29 keeps | mark |
| 26 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 sac | nmod:poss |
| 27 | venom | venom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sac | compound |
| 28 | sac | sac | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 keeps | nsubj |
| 29 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 scraped | advcl |
| 30 | pumping | pump | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 keeps | xcomp |
| 31 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 33 stays | mark |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 stays | nsubj |
| 33 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 pumping | advcl |
| 34 | in | in | ADV | _ | 33 stays | advmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stays | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | present | a honeybee's barbed sting | the skin | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in skin=Location | ||||
| 2 | scrape out | present · passive | a honeybee's barbed sting not said here | with a fingernail or card; sideways, soon property | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: with fingernail=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | keep | present | sting's venom sac | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | pump | gerund | sting's venom sac not said here | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | stay in | present | sac | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | 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:medicine:006-burns-sunburn-and-stings.lesson:12.
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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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