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title: Wasps and bumblebees do not usually die when they sting and can stin… — Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thorns, cacti,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wasps and bumblebees do not usually die when they sting and can sting more than once. Who acts: Wasps. A sentence of the lesson «Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thorns, cacti, fire ants and bee stings» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thorns, cacti, fire ants and bee stings, sentence 20

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

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**Who acts:** Wasps · **What happens:** not die, sting · **To what, where:** more

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Tsunami warnings, lambs, berries, thorns, cacti, fire ants and bee 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:301-tsunamis-lambs-plants-ants-and-stings.lesson:20
# text = Wasps and bumblebees do not usually die when they sting and can sting more than once.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 301-tsunamis-lambs-plants-ants-and-stings.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Wasps	wasp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	bumblebees	bumblebee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
6	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	sting	sting	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	sting	sting	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
14	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	obj	_	_
15	than	than	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:case
16	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	14	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **die** | present · do-support | Wasps and bumblebees |  |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **sting** | present | Wasps *= wasp* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **sting** | can | Wasps *= wasp* *not said here* | more |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus more=Experiencer |

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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:301-tsunamis-lambs-plants-ants-and-stings.lesson:20`.

**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, 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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