--- title: A honeybee worker that stings a person usually dies, because its bar… — Bees and wasps in the garden · tree and pragmatics description: A honeybee worker that stings a person usually dies, because its barbed sting stays in our skin; bumblebees and wasps can sting again and again. Who acts: honeybee worker, sting, bumblebees, worker. 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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 worker, sting, bumblebees, worker), 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:8 # text = A honeybee worker that stings a person usually dies, because its barbed sting stays in our skin; bumblebees and wasps can sting again and again. # 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 ×4 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 honeybee honeybee NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 worker worker NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 4 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 stings sting VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:nmod 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nsubj 8 usually usually ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 dies die VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 because because SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 12 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod:poss 13 barbed barb VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 amod _ _ 14 sting sting NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:compound 15 stays stay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:nmod 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 bumblebees bumblebee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 wasps wasp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 23 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 sting sting VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 25 again again ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 again again ADV RB _ 25 conj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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** | present | a honeybee worker | a person | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus person=Experiencer | | 2 | **die** | present | a honeybee worker | | | | | usually *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **barb** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **stay** | present | worker's sting | | | our skin | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in skin=Location | | 5 | **sting** | can | bumblebees and wasps | | | | again | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **sting** | | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden.lesson:8`. **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 ×4. **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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden/7/) - next →: [Bees and wasps in the garden, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden/)