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title: If a wasp comes to your drink, stay calm, cover the drink and move a… — Bees and wasps in the garden · tree and pragmatics
description: If a wasp comes to your drink, stay calm, cover the drink and move away slowly, because swatting and waving can make it sting. Who acts: wasp, you, drink. A sentence of the lesson «Bees and wasps in the garden» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Bees and wasps in the garden, sentence 15

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If a wasp comes to your drink, stay calm, cover the drink and move away slowly, because swatting and waving can make it sting.

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**Who acts:** wasp, you, drink · **What happens:** come, stay, cover, move away, swat, wave · **To what, where:** drink

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bees and wasps in the garden» 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 (wasp, you, drink), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden.lesson:15
# text = If a wasp comes to your drink, stay calm, cover the drink and move away slowly, because swatting and waving can make it sting.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	wasp	wasp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	stay	stay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	cover	cover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=12:conj
17	away	away	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
21	swatting	swat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	nsubj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	waving	wave	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	conj	_	_
24	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	sting	sting	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a wasp |  |  | your drink |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to drink=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **stay** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | calm *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **cover** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the drink |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme drink=Destination |
| 4 | **move away** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away, slowly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **swat** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **wave** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **make** | can |  | drink |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **sting** | infinitive | drink *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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.

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**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:218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden.lesson:15`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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/).

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