The Amazon forest floor: leafcutters, army ants, tapirs, jaguars and the giant spider, sentence 7
Army ants have no fixed nest and build a living nest of their own linked bodies each night.
Who acts: Army ants · What happens: have, fix, build, link · To what, where: fixed nest, living nest
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), 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 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 ants | compound |
| 2 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 nest | det |
| 5 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 nest | amod |
| 6 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 build | cc |
| 8 | build | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 nest | det |
| 10 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 nest | compound |
| 11 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 build | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 bodies | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 bodies | nmod:poss |
| 14 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bodies | amod |
| 15 | linked | link | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 bodies | amod |
| 16 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 nest | nmod |
| 17 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 night | det |
| 18 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 build | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Army ants | no fixed nest | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fix | participle | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | build | present | Army ants not said here | a living nest of ants's own linked bodies | night | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset nest=Product | |||
| 4 | link | participle | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:7.
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): R1-cc-next ×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.
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