--- title: A honeybee's barbed sting gets stuck in thick skin like ours and tea… — How animals defend themselves · tree and pragmatics description: A honeybee's barbed sting gets stuck in thick skin like ours and tears away, so the bee dies; wasps have smooth stings and can sting again; the hive is full of the bee's sisters, so dying to protect it protects its family. Who acts: barbed sting, bee, wasps, hive. A sentence of the lesson «How anima --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/53-how-animals-defend-themselves/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [How animals defend themselves](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/53-how-animals-defend-themselves/) / 12 # How animals defend themselves, sentence 12 A honeybee's barbed sting gets stuck in thick skin like ours and tears away, so the bee dies; wasps have smooth stings and can sting again; the hive is full of the bee's sisters, so dying to protect it protects its family. **Who acts:** barbed sting, bee, wasps, hive, honeybee · **What happens:** get, tear away, die, have, sting, be · **To what, where:** smooth stings, sting, family This is a sentence of the lesson «How animals defend themselves» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (barbed sting, bee, wasps, hive), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:053-how-animals-defend-themselves.lesson:12 # text = A honeybee's barbed sting gets stuck in thick skin like ours and tears away, so the bee dies; wasps have smooth stings and can sting again; the hive is full of the bee's sisters, so dying to protect it protects its family. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 053-how-animals-defend-themselves.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 honeybee honeybee NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 barbed barbed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 sting sting NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 stuck stuck ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 xcomp _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 like like ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 ours our PRON PRP Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 tears tear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 15 away away ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 bee bee NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 dies die VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 wasps wasp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 24 smooth smooth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 stings sting NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 sting sting VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 29 again again ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 hive hive NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 34 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 parataxis _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 bee bee NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod:poss _ _ 38 's 's PART POS _ 37 case _ _ 39 sisters sister NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 41 so so ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 42 dying die VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 parataxis _ _ 43 to to PART TO _ 44 mark _ _ 44 protect protect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 42 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=42:xcomp 45 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=46:nsubj 46 protects protect VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 ccomp _ _ 47 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 48 nmod:poss _ _ 48 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obj _ _ 49 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | present | a honeybee's barbed sting | | | | | stuck *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **tear away** | present | a honeybee's barbed sting *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **die** | present | the bee | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **have** | present | wasps | smooth stings | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sting=Patient | | 5 | **sting** | can | wasps *not said here* | | | | again | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **is** | present | the hive | | | | | of the bee's sisters; full *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **die** | gerund | | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 8 | **protect** | to-infinitive | | sting | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **protect** | present | | bee's family | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Beneficiary | | 10 | **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:053-how-animals-defend-themselves.lesson:12`. **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 ×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: [How animals defend themselves, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/53-how-animals-defend-themselves/11/) - next →: [How animals defend themselves, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/53-how-animals-defend-themselves/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/53-how-animals-defend-themselves/)