Ants: colonies, queens, farmers and living bridges, sentence 1
Drop a crumb on the kitchen floor and soon a line of ants is marching to it: the first ant left a smell trail and the others follow it.
Who acts: you, line, first ant, others · What happens: drop, march, leave, follow · To what, where: crumb, kitchen floor, ant, smell trail
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 (you, line, first ant, others), 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 | Drop | drop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 crumb | det |
| 3 | crumb | crumb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Drop | obj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 floor | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 floor | det |
| 6 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 floor | compound |
| 7 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Drop | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 marching | cc |
| 9 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 marching | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 line | det |
| 11 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 marching | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 ants | case |
| 13 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 line | nmod |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 marching | aux |
| 15 | marching | march | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Drop | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 marching | obl |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 left | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ant | det |
| 20 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 21 ant | amod |
| 21 | ant | ant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 left | nsubj |
| 22 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 marching | parataxis |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 trail | det |
| 24 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 trail | compound |
| 25 | trail | trail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 left | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 follow | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 others | det |
| 28 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 follow | nsubj |
| 29 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 left | conj |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 follow | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Drop | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | imperative | you not said here | a crumb | the kitchen floor | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent crumb=Theme on floor=Destination | |||
| 2 | march | present · progressive | a line of ants | ant | soon property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to it=Destination | |||
| 3 | leave | past | the first ant | a smell trail | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trail=Theme | ||||
| 4 | follow | present | the others | ant | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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:1.
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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