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title: Swatting at a bee or wasp makes a sting more likely. — Bees, wasps and stings · tree and pragmatics
description: Swatting at a bee or wasp makes a sting more likely. Who acts: Swatting. A sentence of the lesson «Bees, wasps and stings» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Bees, wasps and stings, sentence 11

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Swatting at a bee or wasp makes a sting more likely.

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**Who acts:** Swatting · **What happens:** swat, make · **To what, where:** sting

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bees, wasps and stings» of the everyday 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 (Swatting), 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:11
# text = Swatting at a bee or wasp makes a sting more likely.
# 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): no change
1	Swatting	swat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	wasp	wasp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sting	sting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
11	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swat** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | at a bee or wasp | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at bee=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | present | Swatting | a sting |  |  |  | likely *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sting=Product |

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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.

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**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): no change. **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/).

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