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title: After a bee sting, scrape the stinger out quickly with a fingernail… — Bees, wasps and stings · tree and pragmatics
description: After a bee sting, scrape the stinger out quickly with a fingernail or a card, wash the place and hold something cold on it to ease the pain and swelling. 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
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# Bees, wasps and stings, sentence 3

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After a bee sting, scrape the stinger out quickly with a fingernail or a card, wash the place and hold something cold on it to ease the pain and swelling.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** scrape out, wash, hold, ease · **To what, where:** stinger, place, something, sting, pain

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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:3
# text = After a bee sting, scrape the stinger out quickly with a fingernail or a card, wash the place and hold something cold on it to ease the pain and swelling.
# 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	After	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	sting	sting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	scrape	scrape	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	stinger	stinger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
10	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	fingernail	fingernail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	wash	wash	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:parataxis
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	hold	hold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
23	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	22	obj	_	_
24	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	ease	ease	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	swelling	swelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scrape out** | imperative | you *not said here* | the stinger |  |  | after a bee sting | with a fingernail or a card; quickly *property* | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stinger=Patient with fingernail=Instrument |
| 2 | **wash** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the place |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient |
| 3 | **hold** | infinitive | you *not said here* | something |  | sting |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent something=Theme on it=Location |
| 4 | **ease** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the pain and swelling |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pain=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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**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:3`.

**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/).

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