--- title: Bees, wasps and stings — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Bees, wasps and stings», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Bees and wasps sting to protect themselves and their nest, not to hunt people, so they rarely sting if they are left alone. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/24-bees-and-wasps/) [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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / Bees, wasps and stings # Bees, wasps and stings Lesson 24 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 21 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/24-bees-and-wasps/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/24-bees-and-wasps/0/) — Bees and wasps sting to protect themselves and their nest, not to hunt people, so they rarely sting if they are left alone. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/24-bees-and-wasps/1/) — A honeybee's sting has tiny hooks like a fish-hook; it gets stuck in our skin and tears away from the bee, so the bee dies, while a wasp's smooth sting can be used again and again. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/24-bees-and-wasps/2/) — If a bee or wasp buzzes near you, stay calm and walk slowly away: swatting and flapping makes it feel attacked and more likely to sting. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/24-bees-and-wasps/3/) — After a bee sting, scrape the stinger out quickly with a fingernail or a card, wash the place and hold something cold on it to ease the pain and swelling. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/24-bees-and-wasps/4/) — For most people a sting is just painful, but some people are allergic: if someone's face, lips or throat swell, or they find it hard to breathe or feel faint, call the emergency number at once and use their adrenaline pen if they have one. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/24-bees-and-wasps/5/) — For example, wasps love sweet drinks at picnics, so a wasp can crawl into an open can and sting a child's mouth: always look before you sip. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/24-bees-and-wasps/6/) — A boy in Kansas was stung by a bee and his lips and throat began to swell; his mum used his allergy pen and called 911, and doctors said acting fast saved him. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/24-bees-and-wasps/7/) — A girl in Kent swatted at a wasp nest with a stick; dozens of wasps came out and stung her many times before she got indoors. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/24-bees-and-wasps/8/) — Bees and wasps sting mainly to defend themselves and their nest. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/24-bees-and-wasps/9/) — A honeybee leaves its barbed stinger in the skin and dies after stinging. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/24-bees-and-wasps/11/) — Swatting at a bee or wasp makes a sting more likely. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/24-bees-and-wasps/12/) — A bee stinger should be scraped out quickly, because it keeps pumping venom for a short while. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/24-bees-and-wasps/13/) — A cold pack helps reduce the pain and swelling of a sting. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/24-bees-and-wasps/14/) — Swelling of the face or throat, trouble breathing or feeling faint after a sting is an emergency. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/24-bees-and-wasps/15/) — People with a serious sting allergy may carry an adrenaline pen, such as an EpiPen, given into the outer thigh. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/24-bees-and-wasps/16/) — A sting inside the mouth or throat is dangerous because the swelling can block breathing. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/24-bees-and-wasps/17/) — Wasps are attracted to sweet food and drinks. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/24-bees-and-wasps/18/) — Never poke, throw things at or try to knock down a bees' or wasps' nest. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/24-bees-and-wasps/19/) — Bees are very important because they carry pollen between flowers and help plants make fruit and seeds. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/24-bees-and-wasps/20/) — Some people have a severe allergy to stings that can make their throat swell and needs emergency help at once. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/24-bees-and-wasps/21/) — Disturbing a nest makes wasps or bees attack in large numbers. - ← previous: [Understanding cats](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/23-understanding-cats/) - next →: [Snakes, spiders and scorpions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/25-snakes-spiders-and-scorpions/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)