--- title: The rule "bee stings are acid, wasp stings are alkali" is mostly a m… — Alkalis and soda, and how they cancel acids · tree and pragmatics description: The rule "bee stings are acid, wasp stings are alkali" is mostly a myth; venom works mainly through proteins, and taking the sting out quickly and cold water help more than kitchen cures. Who acts: bee stings, wasp stings, rule, venom. 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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 (bee stings, wasp stings, rule, venom), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chemistry:016-alkalis-and-soda.lesson:13 # text = The rule "bee stings are acid, wasp stings are alkali" is mostly a myth; venom works mainly through proteins, and taking the sting out quickly and cold water help more than kitchen cures. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chemistry # lesson = 016-alkalis-and-soda.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 rule rule NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 4 bee bee NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 stings sting NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 acid acid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 appos _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 wasp wasp NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 stings sting NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 11 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 alkali alkali NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 15 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 myth myth NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 venom venom NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:conj 21 mainly mainly ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 22 through through ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 proteins protein NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 taking take VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 conj _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 sting sting NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 out out ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 30 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 35 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 34 obj _ _ 36 than than ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 kitchen kitchen NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 cures cure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | bee stings | | | | | acid *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | wasp stings | alkali | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | the rule | a myth | | | | mostly *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **work** | present | venom | | | proteins | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **take out** | gerund | venom *not said here* | the sting | | | | quickly *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sting=Theme | | 6 | **help** | present | cold water | more | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Beneficiary | 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:chemistry:016-alkalis-and-soda.lesson:13`. **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 ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Alkalis and soda, and how they cancel…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/16-alkalis-and-soda/12/) - next →: [Alkalis and soda, and how they cancel…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/16-alkalis-and-soda/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/16-alkalis-and-soda/)