Ants: colonies, queens, farmers and living bridges, sentence 0

One ant on its own is not very clever, but a colony of thousands works like one big animal that finds food, builds, farms and defends itself.

Who acts: One ant, colony, one big animal · What happens: not be, work, find, build, farm, defend · To what, where: food

This is a sentence of the lesson «Ants: colonies, queens, farmers and living bridges» 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 (One ant, colony, one big animal), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 ant	nummod
2	ant	ant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 clever	nsubj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 own	case
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 own	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ant	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 clever	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 clever	advmod
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 clever	advmod
9	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 works	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 works	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 colony	det
13	colony	colony	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 works	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 thousands	case
15	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 colony	nmod
16	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 clever	conj
17	like	like	ADP	_	20 animal	case
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 animal	nummod
19	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 animal	amod
20	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 works	obl
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 finds	nsubj
22	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 animal	acl:relcl
23	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 finds	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 builds	punct
25	builds	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 finds	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 farms	punct
27	farms	farm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 finds	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 defends	cc
29	defends	defend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 finds	conj
30	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 defends	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 clever	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	present	One ant on ant's own		clever property	tree rules
2	work	present	a colony of thousands		like one big animal	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	find	present	one big animal	food		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic
4	build	present	one big animal not said here			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	farm	present	one big animal not said here			vn rear-26.2.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	defend	present	one big animal not said here	food		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Beneficiary

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:238-ants-colonies-queens-farmers-and-living-bridges.lesson:0.

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): no change. 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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