Ants: colonies, queens, farmers and living bridges, sentence 4

Ants leave smell trails called pheromones; when a trail leads to good food, more ants follow and lay more smell, so the trail gets stronger.

Who acts: Ants, smell trails, trail, more ants · What happens: leave, call, lead, follow, lay, get · To what, where: smell trails, pheromones, more smell · 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 (Ants, smell trails, trail, more ants), 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	2 leave	nsubj
2	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trails	compound
4	trails	trail	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 leave	obj
5	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 trails	acl
6	pheromones	pheromone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 called	xcomp
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 leads	punct
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 leads	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 trail	det
10	trail	trail	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 leads	nsubj
11	leads	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 follow	advcl
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 food	case
13	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 food	amod
14	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 leads	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 follow	punct
16	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 ants	amod
17	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 follow	nsubj
18	follow	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 leave	parataxis
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 lay	cc
20	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 follow	conj
21	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 smell	amod
22	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lay	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 gets	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	27 gets	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 trail	det
26	trail	trail	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 gets	nsubj
27	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 leave	advcl
28	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 gets	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 leave	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	leave	present	Ants	smell trails		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trail=Theme
2	call	participle	smell trails not said here	pheromones		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	lead	present	a trail		to good food	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to food=Patient
4	follow	present	more ants			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	lay	present	more ants not said here	more smell		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smell=Result
6	get	present	the trail		strong property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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:4.

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 ×2, 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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