--- title: A boy in Kansas was stung by a bee and his lips and throat began to… — Bees, wasps and stings · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Kansas was stung by a bee and his lips and throat began to swell; his mum used his allergy pen and called 911, and doctors said acting fast saved him. Who acts: bee, mum, doctors. 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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, mum, doctors), 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:6 # text = A boy in Kansas was stung by a bee and his lips and throat began to swell; his mum used his allergy pen and called 911, and doctors said acting fast saved him. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Kansas Kansas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 stung sting VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 by by ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 bee bee NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:agent _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 lips lip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 throat throat NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj 15 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 swell swell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 used use VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=15:conj 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 allergy allergy NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 pen pen NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 27 911 911 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 26 obj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 doctors doctor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 31 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 parataxis _ _ 32 acting act VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 34 nsubj _ _ 33 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 34 advmod _ _ 34 saved save VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 ccomp _ _ 35 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sting** | past · passive | a bee and boy's lips and throat | a boy in Kansas | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | | 2 | **begin** | past | a bee and boy's lips and throat *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **swell** | to-infinitive | a bee and boy's lips and throat *not said here* | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **use** | past | boy's mum | boy's allergy pen | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pen=Patient | | 5 | **call** | past | boy's mum *not said here* | 911 | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent 911=Recipient | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | doctors | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **act** | gerund | | | | | | | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **save** | past | | boy | | | | fast *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | 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:6`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/24-bees-and-wasps/5/) - next →: [Bees, wasps and stings, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/24-bees-and-wasps/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/24-bees-and-wasps/)