--- title: Wasps that pester us at picnics in late summer are not villains eith… — Bees and wasps in the garden · tree and pragmatics description: Wasps that pester us at picnics in late summer are not villains either: all summer they hunt caterpillars and flies in the garden, and they carry pollen from flower to flower too. Who acts: Wasps, flower. 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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 (Wasps, flower), 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:4 # text = Wasps that pester us at picnics in late summer are not villains either: all summer they hunt caterpillars and flies in the garden, and they carry pollen from flower to flower too. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Wasps wasp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 2 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 3 nsubj _ _ 3 pester pester VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 acl:relcl _ _ 4 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 picnics picnic NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 late late ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 10 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 villains villain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 parataxis _ _ 13 either either ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 15 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 16 det _ _ 16 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl:unmarked _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 hunt hunt VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 caterpillars caterpillar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 flies fly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nmod 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 29 pollen pollen NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 30 from from ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:mark|HaikuPos=PART:TO:_ 33 flower flower VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 acl _ _ 34 too too ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:advmod 35 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pester** | present | Wasps | us | | picnics | summer | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus we=Experiencer | | 2 | **not** **is a** | present | Wasps | villains | | | | either *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **hunt** | present | Wasps *= wasp* | caterpillars and flies | | the garden | summer | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent caterpillar=Theme in garden=Location | | 4 | **carry** | present | Wasps *= wasp* | pollen | | flower | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent pollen=Theme from flower=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **flower** | infinitive | flower *not said here* | | | | | | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden.lesson:4`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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: [Bees and wasps in the garden, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden/3/) - next →: [Bees and wasps in the garden, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden/)