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title: Disturbing a nest makes wasps or bees attack in large numbers. — Bees, wasps and stings · tree and pragmatics
description: Disturbing a nest makes wasps or bees attack in large numbers. Who acts: Disturbing, wasps. 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 21

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Disturbing a nest makes wasps or bees attack in large numbers.

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**Who acts:** Disturbing, wasps · **What happens:** disturb, make, attack · **To what, where:** nest, wasps, large numbers

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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 (Disturbing, wasps), 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:21
# text = Disturbing a nest makes wasps or bees attack in large numbers.
# 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	Disturbing	disturb	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	wasps	wasp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	attack	attack	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **disturb** | gerund |  | a nest |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus nest=Experiencer |
| 2 | **make** | present | Disturbing | wasps or bees |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **attack** | infinitive | wasps or bees *not said here* |  |  | large numbers |  |  | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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