Ants: colonies, queens, farmers and living bridges, sentence 12
Ants can carry many times their own weight, because small animals are strong for their size; a dog-sized ant could hardly stand.
Who acts: Ants, small animals, sized ant · What happens: carry, be, stand · To what, where: own weight
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 (Ants, small animals, sized ant), 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 | Ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 carry | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 carry | aux |
| 3 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 times | amod |
| 5 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 carry | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 weight | nmod:poss |
| 7 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 weight | amod |
| 8 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carry | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 strong | punct |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 14 strong | mark |
| 11 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 animals | amod |
| 12 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 strong | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 strong | cop |
| 14 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 carry | advcl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 size | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 size | nmod:poss |
| 17 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 strong | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 stand | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 ant | det |
| 20 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sized | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 dog | punct |
| 22 | sized | size | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 ant | amod |
| 23 | ant | ant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 stand | nsubj |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 stand | aux |
| 25 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 26 stand | advmod |
| 26 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 strong | parataxis |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | can | Ants | floods's own weight | time | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | present | small animals | for floods's size; strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stand | could | a sized ant | hardly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:12.
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): R5-strong ×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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