--- title: Only females sting, and a honeybee that stings a person usually dies… — Insects: six legs, three parts; ants, bees and w… · tree and pragmatics description: Only females sting, and a honeybee that stings a person usually dies, so the wasp at the picnic is a far better reason to stay calm than to swat. Who acts: females, honeybee, wasp. 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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 (females, honeybee, wasp), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:036-insects-six-legs-ants-bees-and-wasps.lesson:4 # text = Only females sting, and a honeybee that stings a person usually dies, so the wasp at the picnic is a far better reason to stay calm than to swat. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 036-insects-six-legs-ants-bees-and-wasps.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): R6-punct-agree ×3 1 Only only ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 females female NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 sting sting VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 parataxis _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 honeybee honeybee NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 8 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 stings sting VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 usually usually ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 dies die VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 15 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 wasp wasp NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 18 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 picnic picnic NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 23 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 24 advmod _ _ 24 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 25 amod _ _ 25 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 acl _ _ 28 calm calm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 xcomp _ _ 29 than than SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 swat swat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 advcl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25: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 | females | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **sting** | present | a honeybee | a person | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus person=Experiencer | | 3 | **die** | present | a honeybee | | | | | usually *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **is a** | present | the wasp at the picnic | a better reason | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **stay** | to-infinitive | | | | | | calm *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **swat** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=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:036-insects-six-legs-ants-bees-and-wasps.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): R6-punct-agree ×3. **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: [Insects: six legs, three parts; ants,…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/36-insects-six-legs-ants-bees-and-wasps/3/) - next →: [Insects: six legs, three parts; ants,…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/36-insects-six-legs-ants-bees-and-wasps/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/36-insects-six-legs-ants-bees-and-wasps/)