--- title: If a bee or wasp buzzes near you, stay calm and walk slowly away: sw… — Bees, wasps and stings · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: bee, you, swatting, flapping. 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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, you, swatting, flapping), 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:2 # text = 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. # 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 bee bee NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 or or CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc 5 wasp wasp NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 6 buzzes buzz VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 7 near near ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 10 stay stay VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 calm calm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 walk walk VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 14 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 away away ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 16 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 17 swatting swat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 csubj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 flapping flap NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 20 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:advcl 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:expl 22 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 attacked attack VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 xcomp _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=23:cc 25 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 26 advmod _ _ 26 likely likely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 conj _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 sting sting VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: suggest - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=imp, act=suggest | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **buzz** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a bee or wasp | | | | | near you | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near you=Location | | 2 | **stay** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | calm *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **walk** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **swat** | gerund | | | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **make** | present | swatting | flapping *= flap* | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **feel** | infinitive | flapping *= flap* *not said here* | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 7 | **attack** | participle | flapping *= flap* *not said here* | | | | | | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **sting** | to-infinitive | flapping *= flap* *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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:2`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/24-bees-and-wasps/1/) - next →: [Bees, wasps and stings, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/24-bees-and-wasps/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/24-bees-and-wasps/)