--- title: Bees can sting the soft skin inside the trunk and round the eyes, an… — Myth check: are elephants scared of mice? · tree and pragmatics description: Bees can sting the soft skin inside the trunk and round the eyes, and in Kenya beehive fences keep elephants out of fields while giving honey. Who acts: Bees, beehive fences. A sentence of the lesson «Myth check: are elephants scared of mice?» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/149-myth-check-are-elephants-scared-of-mice/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Myth check: are elephants scared of mi…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/149-myth-check-are-elephants-scared-of-mice/) / 10 # Myth check: are elephants scared of mice?, sentence 10 Bees can sting the soft skin inside the trunk and round the eyes, and in Kenya beehive fences keep elephants out of fields while giving honey. **Who acts:** Bees, beehive fences · **What happens:** sting, round, keep, give · **To what, where:** soft skin, trunk, eyes, elephants, Kenya, honey This is a sentence of the lesson «Myth check: are elephants scared of mice?» of the biology 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 (Bees, beehive fences), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:149-myth-check-are-elephants-scared-of-mice.lesson:10 # text = Bees can sting the soft skin inside the trunk and round the eyes, and in Kenya beehive fences keep elephants out of fields while giving honey. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 149-myth-check-are-elephants-scared-of-mice.lesson # annotation = 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 1 Bees bee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 sting sting VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 inside inside ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 trunk trunk NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 round round VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 Kenya Kenya PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 18 beehive beehive NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 fences fence NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 21 elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 22 out out ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 fields field NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 25 while while SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 26 giving give VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 advcl _ _ 27 honey honey NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sting** | can | Bees | the soft skin | | the trunk | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus skin=Experiencer | | 2 | **round** | infinitive | Bees *not said here* | the eyes | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | | 3 | **keep** | present | beehive fences | elephants | | Kenya | | out fields | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent elephant=Theme in kenya=Location | | 4 | **give** | gerund | beehive fences *not said here* | honey | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honey=Theme | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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. 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