--- title: Honeybees die after stinging people because the barbed stinger stick… — Record-breakers: the most venomous and poisonous · tree and pragmatics description: Honeybees die after stinging people because the barbed stinger sticks in skin and tears out, but not when stinging other insects. Who acts: Honeybees, barbed stinger. A sentence of the lesson «Record-breakers: the most venomous and poisonous» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its d --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/188-record-breakers-the-most-venomous-and-poisonous/14/) [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/) / [Record-breakers: the most venomous and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/188-record-breakers-the-most-venomous-and-poisonous/) / 14 # Record-breakers: the most venomous and poisonous, sentence 14 Honeybees die after stinging people because the barbed stinger sticks in skin and tears out, but not when stinging other insects. **Who acts:** Honeybees, barbed stinger · **What happens:** die, sting, stick, tear out, not sting · **To what, where:** people, skin, other insects This is a sentence of the lesson «Record-breakers: the most venomous and poisonous» 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 (Honeybees, barbed stinger), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:188-record-breakers-the-most-venomous-and-poisonous.lesson:14 # text = Honeybees die after stinging people because the barbed stinger sticks in skin and tears out, but not when stinging other insects. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 188-record-breakers-the-most-venomous-and-poisonous.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Honeybees honeybee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 die die VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 after after SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 4 stinging sting VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 5 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 because because SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 barbed barb ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 stinger stinger NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 sticks stick VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 tears tear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 15 out out ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 19 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 20 advmod _ _ 20 stinging sting VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 21 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **die** | present | Honeybees | | | | | | 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 | the barbed stinger | | | skin | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in skin=Destination | | 4 | **tear out** | present | the barbed stinger *not said here* | | | | | out *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **not** **sting** | gerund | Honeybees *not said here* | other insects | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus insect=Experiencer | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:188-record-breakers-the-most-venomous-and-poisonous.lesson:14`. **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): R8-pos-agree ×1. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Record-breakers: the most venomous and…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/188-record-breakers-the-most-venomous-and-poisonous/12/) - next →: [Masters of camouflage, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/189-masters-of-camouflage/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/188-record-breakers-the-most-venomous-and-poisonous/)