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title: When a wasp flies near you, stay calm and move slowly away, because… — Splinters, stings, allergies and asthma · tree and pragmatics
description: When a wasp flies near you, stay calm and move slowly away, because swatting makes a sting more likely. Who acts: wasp, you, swatting. A sentence of the lesson «Splinters, stings, allergies and asthma» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Splinters, stings, allergies and asthma, sentence 5

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When a wasp flies near you, stay calm and move slowly away, because swatting makes a sting more likely.

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**Who acts:** wasp, you, swatting · **What happens:** fly, stay, move, make · **To what, where:** sting

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Splinters, stings, allergies and asthma» 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 (wasp, you, swatting), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:085-splinters-stings-and-allergies.lesson:5
# text = When a wasp flies near you, stay calm and move slowly away, because swatting makes a sting more likely.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 085-splinters-stings-and-allergies.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	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	wasp	wasp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	flies	fly	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
5	near	near	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
12	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	away	away	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	swatting	swat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
17	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	sting	sting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	21	advmod	_	_
21	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **fly** | present | a wasp |  |  |  |  | near you | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near you=Location |
| 2 | **stay** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | calm *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **move** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | present | swatting | a sting |  |  |  | likely *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sting=Product |

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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:085-splinters-stings-and-allergies.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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