--- title: A honeybee's sting has tiny hooks like a fish-hook; it gets stuck in… — Bees, wasps and stings · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: sting, bee, 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 (sting, bee, honeybee, wasp), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:024-bees-and-wasps.lesson:1 # text = 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. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 024-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): R7-rel-agree ×1 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 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 hooks hook NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 like like ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ _ 12 hook hook NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 gets get AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 stuck stick VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 tears tear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 22 away away ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 from from ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 bee bee NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 so so ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 bee bee NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 dies die VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 32 while while SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 wasp wasp NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod:poss _ _ 35 's 's PART POS _ 34 case _ _ 36 smooth smooth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 sting sting NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj:pass _ _ 38 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 39 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 40 aux:pass _ _ 40 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:conj 41 again again ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 again again ADV RB _ 41 conj _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | a honeybee's sting | tiny hooks | | | | like a fish hook | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hook=Patient | | 2 | **stick** | present · passive | | sting | | our skin | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in skin=Destination | | 3 | **tear away** | present | | | | | | from the bee; away *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from bee=Trajectory | | 4 | **die** | present | the bee | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **use** | can · passive | | a wasp's smooth sting | | | again | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 6 | **sting** | | a honeybee | | | | | | nom sting «state transitive»: poss=agent | | 7 | **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:everyday:024-bees-and-wasps.lesson:1`. **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): 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: [Bees, wasps and stings, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/24-bees-and-wasps/0/) - next →: [Bees, wasps and stings, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/24-bees-and-wasps/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/24-bees-and-wasps/)