Ants: colonies, queens, farmers and living bridges, sentence 16
Some honeypot ant workers swell with sweet liquid and hang from the nest roof like living jars, storing food for hard times.
Who acts: honeypot ant workers · What happens: swell, hang, store · To what, where: nest roof, 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 (honeypot ant workers), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 workers | det |
| 2 | honeypot | honeypot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 workers | compound |
| 3 | ant | ant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 workers | compound |
| 4 | workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 swell | nsubj |
| 5 | swell | swell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 liquid | case |
| 7 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 liquid | amod |
| 8 | liquid | liquid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 swell | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 hang | cc |
| 10 | hang | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 swell | conj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 roof | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 roof | det |
| 13 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 roof | compound |
| 14 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hang | obl |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 jars | case |
| 16 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 jars | compound |
| 17 | jars | jar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 hang | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 storing | punct |
| 19 | storing | store | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 hang | advcl |
| 20 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 storing | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 times | case |
| 22 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 times | amod |
| 23 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 storing | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 swell | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swell | present | some honeypot ant workers | with sweet liquid | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | hang | present | some honeypot ant workers not said here | the nest roof | like living jars | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | store | gerund | some honeypot ant workers not said here | food | time | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=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:16.
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, R7-rel-agree ×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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