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title: Wasps and bumblebees can sting more than once and do not die. — The night sky and outdoor myths · tree and pragmatics
description: Wasps and bumblebees can sting more than once and do not die. Who acts: Wasps. A sentence of the lesson «The night sky and outdoor myths» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The night sky and outdoor myths, sentence 17

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Wasps and bumblebees can sting more than once and do not die.

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**Who acts:** Wasps · **What happens:** sting, not die

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The night sky and outdoor myths» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:240-night-sky-and-outdoor-myths.lesson:17
# text = Wasps and bumblebees can sting more than once and do not die.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 240-night-sky-and-outdoor-myths.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Wasps	wasp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	bumblebees	bumblebee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	sting	sting	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	6	fixed	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:case
8	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:aux|HaikuPos=AUX:VB:Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	die	die	VERB	VB	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	.	.	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 | **sting** | can | Wasps and bumblebees |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **not** **die** | present · do-support | Wasps and bumblebees *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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:240-night-sky-and-outdoor-myths.lesson:17`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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