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title: For example, wasps love sweet drinks at picnics, so a wasp can crawl… — Bees, wasps and stings · tree and pragmatics
description: For example, wasps love sweet drinks at picnics, so a wasp can crawl into an open can and sting a child's mouth: always look before you sip. Who acts: wasps, wasp, 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 5

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For example, wasps love sweet drinks at picnics, so a wasp can crawl into an open can and sting a child's mouth: always look before you sip.

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**Who acts:** wasps, wasp, you · **What happens:** love, crawl, sting, look, sip · **To what, where:** sweet drinks, picnics, open can, mouth

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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 (wasps, wasp, 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:5
# text = For example, wasps love sweet drinks at picnics, so a wasp can crawl into an open can and sting a child's mouth: always look before you sip.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	wasps	wasp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	drinks	drink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	picnics	picnic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	wasp	wasp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	crawl	crawl	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	can	can	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	sting	sting	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
27	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	28	advmod	_	_
28	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
29	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	sip	sip	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **love** | present | wasps | sweet drinks |  | picnics |  | for example | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer drink=Stimulus for example=Attribute |
| 2 | **crawl** | can | a wasp |  |  | a open can |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into can=Destination |
| 3 | **sting** | infinitive | a wasp *not said here* | a child's mouth |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus mouth=Experiencer |
| 4 | **look** | infinitive | a wasp *not said here* |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **sip** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «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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**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:5`.

**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): 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/).

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