Small creatures and creepy-crawlies, sentence 9

Only honeybees usually die after stinging people, because their barbed sting sticks in our skin; bumblebees and wasps can sting more than once.

Who acts: honeybees, sting, bumblebees · What happens: die, sting, stick · To what, where: people, skin, more

This is a sentence of the lesson «Small creatures and creepy-crawlies» of the myths 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 (honeybees, sting, bumblebees), 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	Only	only	ADV	_	2 honeybees	advmod
2	honeybees	honeybee	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 die	nsubj
3	usually	usually	ADV	_	4 die	advmod
4	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	after	after	SCONJ	_	6 stinging	mark
6	stinging	sting	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 die	advcl
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stinging	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 more	punct
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 sticks	mark
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 sting	nmod:poss
11	barbed	barb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 sticks	amod
12	sting	sting	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sticks	nsubj
13	sticks	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 die	advcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 skin	case
15	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 skin	nmod:poss
16	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sticks	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 bumblebees	punct
18	bumblebees	bumblebee	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 sting	nsubj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 wasps	cc
20	wasps	wasp	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 bumblebees	conj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 sting	aux
22	sting	sting	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 die	parataxis
23	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 sting	obj
24	than	than	ADP	_	23 more	fixed
25	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	23 more	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 die	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	die	present	honeybees			usually property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	sting	gerund	honeybees not said here	people			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer
3	stick	present	honeybees's sting		our skin		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in skin=Destination
4	sting	can	bumblebees and wasps	more			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus more=Experiencer
5	sting		honeybees = 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:myths:009-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies.lesson:9.

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 ×6, 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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