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title: Only honeybees usually die after stinging people; bumblebees and was… — Olympiad: which claim is true? ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Only honeybees usually die after stinging people; bumblebees and wasps can sting more than once. Who acts: honeybees, bumblebees. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: which claim is true? ★★★» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Olympiad: which claim is true? ★★★, sentence 16

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Only honeybees usually die after stinging people; bumblebees and wasps can sting more than once.

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**Who acts:** honeybees, bumblebees · **What happens:** die, sting · **To what, where:** people

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: which claim is true? ★★★» of the myths 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 (honeybees, bumblebees), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:036-olympiad-which-claim-is-true.lesson:16
# text = Only honeybees usually die after stinging people; bumblebees and wasps can sting more than once.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 036-olympiad-which-claim-is-true.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 ×1
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	honeybees	honeybee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	die	die	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	stinging	sting	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
9	bumblebees	bumblebee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	wasps	wasp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	sting	sting	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
14	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp
15	than	than	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:case
16	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	13	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | present | honeybees |  |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **sting** | gerund | honeybees *not said here* | people |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer |
| 3 | **sting** | can | bumblebees and wasps |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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:myths:036-olympiad-which-claim-is-true.lesson:16`.

**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 ×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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