--- title: Only honeybee workers usually die after stinging a person, because t… — More animal myths: red rags, camel humps, porcup… · tree and pragmatics description: Only honeybee workers usually die after stinging a person, because their barbed sting stays stuck; bumblebees and wasps can sting again and again. Who acts: honeybee workers, sting, bumblebees, workers. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (honeybee workers, sting, bumblebees, workers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons.lesson:15 # text = Only honeybee workers usually die after stinging a person, because their barbed sting stays stuck; bumblebees and wasps can sting again and again. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Only only ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 honeybee honeybee NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 workers worker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 usually usually ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 die die VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 after after SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 stinging sting VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 11 because because SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:mark 12 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod:poss 13 barbed barb ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 sting sting NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:compound 15 stays stay NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 stuck stuck ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 advcl _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 bumblebees bumblebee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 wasps wasp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 21 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 sting sting VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 23 again again ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 again again ADV RB _ 23 conj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **die** | present | honeybee workers | | | | | usually *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 2 | **sting** | gerund | honeybee workers *not said here* | a person | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus person=Experiencer | | 3 | **stay** | | workers's sting | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **sting** | can | bumblebees and wasps | | | | again | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **sting** | | workers *= worker* | | | | | | 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](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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