Ants: colonies, queens, farmers and living bridges, sentence 11
In floods fire ants link legs into a floating raft with the queen and young in the middle, and the raft can float for weeks.
Who acts: fire ants, raft · What happens: link, float · To what, where: legs, floods
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 (fire ants, raft), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 floods | case |
| 2 | floods | flood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 link | obl |
| 3 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ants | compound |
| 4 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 link | nsubj |
| 5 | link | link | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 link | obj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 raft | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 raft | det |
| 9 | floating | float | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 raft | amod |
| 10 | raft | raft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 link | obl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 queen | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 queen | det |
| 13 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 link | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 young | cc |
| 15 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 queen | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 middle | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 middle | det |
| 18 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 young | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 float | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 float | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 raft | det |
| 22 | raft | raft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 float | nsubj |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 float | aux |
| 24 | float | float | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 link | conj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 weeks | case |
| 26 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 float | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 link | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | link | present | fire ants | legs | floods | into a floating raft; with the queen | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent leg=Patient into raft=Co-Patient | ||
| 2 | float | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | float | can | the raft | week | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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:11.
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): 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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