Ants: colonies, queens, farmers and living bridges, sentence 15

Termites are sometimes called white ants but are not ants at all; they are closer to cockroaches, and their colonies have a king as well as a queen.

Who acts: Termites, colonies · What happens: call, not be, be, have · To what, where: Termites, ants, all, king · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Termites, colonies), 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	Termites	termite	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 called	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 called	aux:pass
3	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 called	advmod
4	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ants	amod
6	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 called	xcomp
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 ants	cc
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 ants	cop
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 ants	advmod
10	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 called	conj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 ants	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 closer	punct
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 closer	nsubj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 closer	cop
16	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 called	xcomp
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 cockroaches	case
18	cockroaches	cockroach	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 closer	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 have	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 have	cc
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 colonies	nmod:poss
22	colonies	colony	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 have	nsubj
23	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 called	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 king	det
25	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 have	obj
26	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	30 queen	cc
27	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 as	fixed
28	as	as	ADP	_	26 as	fixed
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 queen	det
30	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 king	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 called	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	call	present · passive		Termites		sometimes property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	not is a	present		ants	all		tree rules
3	is	present	Termites = termite			to cockroaches; close property	tree rules
4	have	present	Termites's colonies	a king as a queen			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=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:238-ants-colonies-queens-farmers-and-living-bridges.lesson:15.

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): R7-rel-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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