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title: Never poke, throw things at or try to knock down a bees' or wasps' n… — Bees, wasps and stings · tree and pragmatics
description: Never poke, throw things at or try to knock down a bees' or wasps' nest. Who acts: you. 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 18

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Never poke, throw things at or try to knock down a bees' or wasps' nest.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not poke, throw, try, knock down · **To what, where:** things, nest

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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 (you), 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:18
# text = Never poke, throw things at or try to knock down a bees' or wasps' nest.
# 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	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	poke	poke	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	throw	throw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
5	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	obl	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	try	try	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	knock	knock	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	down	down	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod:poss	_	_
14	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	wasps	wasp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
17	'	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **not** **poke** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **throw** | infinitive | you *not said here* | things |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
| 3 | **try** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **knock down** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a bees or wasps's nest |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent nest=Patient |

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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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