Ants: colonies, queens, farmers and living bridges, sentence 5

In a nest the queen lays the eggs, and the workers, all females and sisters, care for the young, dig and fetch food.

Who acts: queen, workers · What happens: lay, care, dig, fetch · To what, where: eggs, nest, 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 (queen, 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 nest	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 nest	det
3	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lays	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 queen	det
5	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lays	nsubj
6	lays	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 eggs	det
8	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lays	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 care	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 care	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 workers	det
12	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 care	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 females	punct
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 females	det
15	females	female	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 workers	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sisters	cc
17	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 females	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 workers	punct
19	care	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 lays	conj
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 young	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 young	det
22	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 care	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 dig	punct
24	dig	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 care	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 fetch	cc
26	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 care	conj
27	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fetch	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lays	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lay	present	the queen	the eggs	a nest		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in nest=Destination
2	care	present	the workers and all females and sisters			for the young	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for young=Theme
3	dig	present	the workers and all females and sisters not said here				vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	fetch	present	the workers and all females and sisters not said here	food			vn get-13.5.1-1 «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:5.

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. 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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