The Amazon forest floor: leafcutters, army ants, tapirs, jaguars and the giant spider, sentence 6
Army ants raid in a moving carpet of hundreds of thousands, and antbirds follow to catch the insects fleeing in front, not to eat the ants.
Who acts: Army ants, antbirds, insects · What happens: raid, move, follow, catch, flee, not eat · To what, where: moving carpet, insects, front, ants
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Amazon forest floor: leafcutters, army ants, tapirs, jaguars and the giant spider» of the biology 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 (Army ants, antbirds, insects), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ants | compound |
| 2 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 raid | nsubj |
| 3 | raid | raid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 carpet | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 carpet | det |
| 6 | moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 carpet | amod |
| 7 | carpet | carpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 raid | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 hundreds | case |
| 9 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 carpet | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 thousands | case |
| 11 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hundreds | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 follow | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 follow | cc |
| 14 | antbirds | antbird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 follow | nsubj |
| 15 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 raid | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 catch | mark |
| 17 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 follow | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 insects | det |
| 19 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 catch | obj |
| 20 | fleeing | flee | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 insects | acl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 front | case |
| 22 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fleeing | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 eat | punct |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 eat | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 eat | mark |
| 26 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 catch | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 ants | det |
| 28 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 eat | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 raid | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raid | present | Army ants | a moving carpet of hundreds of thousands | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | move | gerund | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | follow | present | antbirds | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | catch | to-infinitive | antbirds not said here | the insects | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Theme | ||||
| 5 | flee | gerund | the insects not said here | front | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | not eat | to-infinitive | antbirds not said here | the ants | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ant=Patient |
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, 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:biology:157-the-amazon-forest-floor.lesson:6.
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): 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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