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title: After a bee sting, scrape the sting out sideways with a fingernail,… — Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, blackberries… · tree and pragmatics
description: After a bee sting, scrape the sting out sideways with a fingernail, cool the spot and tell an adult; get help at once if it swells a lot or breathing is hard. Who acts: you, sting, breathing. A sentence of the lesson «Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, blackberries, cacti, fire ants and bee stings»
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# Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, blackberries, cacti, fire ants and bee stings, sentence 18

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After a bee sting, scrape the sting out sideways with a fingernail, cool the spot and tell an adult; get help at once if it swells a lot or breathing is hard.

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**Who acts:** you, sting, breathing · **What happens:** scrape out, cool, tell, get, swell, be · **To what, where:** sting, spot, adult, help, lot · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, blackberries, 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 (you, sting, breathing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants.lesson:18
# text = After a bee sting, scrape the sting out sideways with a fingernail, cool the spot and tell an adult; get help at once if it swells a lot or breathing is hard.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants.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 ×2, 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	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	scrape	scrape	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:det
8	sting	sting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:compound
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
10	sideways	sideways	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
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	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	cool	cool	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=15:conj
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
24	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	23	obl	_	_
27	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	swells	swell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	breathing	breathing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
34	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
35	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	conj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **scrape out** | imperative | you *not said here* | the sting |  |  | after a bee sting | with a fingernail; sideways *property* | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sting=Patient with fingernail=Instrument |
| 2 | **cool** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the spot |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent spot=Patient |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | a adult |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |
| 4 | **get** | infinitive |  | help |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent help=Theme at once=Asset |
| 5 | **swell** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | sting | a lot |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient lot=Extent |
| 6 | **is** | present | breathing |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | tree rules |

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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:326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants.lesson:18`.

**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 ×2, 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.

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