--- title: Only honeybees usually die after stinging people, because their barb… — Small creatures and creepy-crawlies · tree and pragmatics description: Only honeybees usually die after stinging people, because their barbed sting sticks in our skin; bumblebees and wasps can sting more than once. Who acts: honeybees, sting, bumblebees. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (honeybees, sting, bumblebees), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:009-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies.lesson:9 # text = Only honeybees usually die after stinging people, because their barbed sting sticks in our skin; bumblebees and wasps can sting more than once. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 009-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies.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 ×6, R7-rel-agree ×2 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 , _ 23 punct _ _ 9 because because SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:mark 10 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod:poss 11 barbed barb ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 12 sting sting NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:compound 13 sticks stick VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:nmod 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 bumblebees bumblebee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:conj 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 wasps wasp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:conj 21 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 sting sting VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 23 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 22 obj _ _ 24 than than ADP IN _ 23 fixed _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:case 25 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 23 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | 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 | **stick** | present | honeybees's sting | | | our skin | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in skin=Destination | | 4 | **sting** | can | bumblebees and wasps | more | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus more=Experiencer | | 5 | **sting** | | honeybees *= honeybee* | | | | | | nom sting «state transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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:009-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies.lesson:9`. **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 ×6, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Small creatures and creepy-crawlies, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/9-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies/8/) - next →: [Small creatures and creepy-crawlies, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/9-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/9-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies/)