--- title: A honeybee's sting has barbs that stick in thick mammal skin, so the… — Bees: the waggle dance, the hive and honey · tree and pragmatics description: A honeybee's sting has barbs that stick in thick mammal skin, so the bee dies, and the left-behind sting keeps pumping venom, so scraping it out quickly helps. Who acts: sting, barbs, bee, left sting. 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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 (sting, barbs, bee, left sting), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:239-bees-the-waggle-dance-the-hive-and-honey.lesson:10 # text = A honeybee's sting has barbs that stick in thick mammal skin, so the bee dies, and the left-behind sting keeps pumping venom, so scraping it out quickly helps. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 239-bees-the-waggle-dance-the-hive-and-honey.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 honeybee honeybee NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 sting sting NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 barbs barb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 stick stick VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 mammal mammal NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 bee bee NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 dies die VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:det 21 left left ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ _ 23 behind behind ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 sting sting NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 26 pumping pump VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 25 xcomp _ _ 27 venom venom NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct 29 so so ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 30 scraping scrape VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 34 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:nsubj 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 out out ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ _ 33 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:advmod 34 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=17:conj 35 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | a honeybee's sting | barbs | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent barb=Patient | | 2 | **stick** | present | barbs | | | thick mammal skin | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in skin=Destination | | 3 | **die** | present | the bee | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **keep** | present | the left sting | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **pump** | gerund | the left sting *not said here* | venom | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent venom=Theme | | 6 | **scrape out** | gerund | | venom | | | | quickly *property* | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 7 | **help** | present | scraping | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **sting** | | a honeybee | | | | | | 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:239-bees-the-waggle-dance-the-hive-and-honey.lesson:10`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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. 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