--- title: A honeybee's sting has barbs and stays in the skin, so the bee dies… — Bites, stings and scratches: mosquitoes, wasps,… · tree and pragmatics description: A honeybee's sting has barbs and stays in the skin, so the bee dies after stinging, while a wasp's sting is smooth and can sting again; a grown-up scrapes a bee sting out with a fingernail or card, and cold water and a cool cloth help. Who acts: sting, bee, grown up, honeybee. 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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, bee, grown up, honeybee), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:399-bites-stings-and-scratches-mosquitoes-wasps-ticks-dog-bites-and-cat-scratches.lesson:9 # text = A honeybee's sting has barbs and stays in the skin, so the bee dies after stinging, while a wasp's sting is smooth and can sting again; a grown-up scrapes a bee sting out with a fingernail or card, and cold water and a cool cloth help. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 399-bites-stings-and-scratches-mosquitoes-wasps-ticks-dog-bites-and-cat-scratches.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2 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 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 stays stay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 bee bee NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 dies die VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 17 after after SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 18 stinging sting VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 20 while while SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 wasp wasp NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 's 's PART POS _ 22 case _ _ 24 sting sting NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 smooth smooth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 advcl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 sting sting VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 conj _ _ 30 again again ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 ; ; PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 33 grown grow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ _ 35 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 scrapes scrape VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 bee bee NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 sting sting NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 40 out out ADP RP _ 36 compound:prt _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=39:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 41 with with ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 fingernail fingernail NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 44 or or CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 card card NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 conj _ _ 46 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 48 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 50 and and CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 51 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 52 cool cool ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 54 amod _ _ 53 cloth cloth NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 compound _ _ 54 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 conj _ _ 55 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | 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 | **stay** | present | a honeybee's sting *not said here* | | | the skin | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in skin=Location | | 3 | **die** | present | the bee | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **sting** | gerund | the bee *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **is** | present | a wasp's sting | | | | | smooth *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **sting** | can | a wasp's sting *not said here* | | | | again | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **scrape out** | present | a grown up | a bee sting | | | | with a fingernail or card; cold water and a cool cloth help *obl* | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sting=Patient with fingernail=Instrument | | 8 | **sting** | | a honeybee | | | | | | nom sting «state transitive»: poss=agent | | 9 | **sting** | | a wasp | | | | | | 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:399-bites-stings-and-scratches-mosquitoes-wasps-ticks-dog-bites-and-cat-scratches.lesson:9`. **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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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