Ants: colonies, queens, farmers and living bridges, sentence 7
On «flying ant day» young queens and males fly out to mate, and each new queen pulls off her wings and starts a new nest.
Who acts: young queens, new queen · What happens: fly, fly out, mate, pull off, start · To what, where: wings, new nest
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 (young queens, new queen), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 5 day | case |
| 2 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 day | punct |
| 3 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 day | amod |
| 4 | ant | ant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 day | compound |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fly | obl |
| 6 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 day | punct |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 queens | amod |
| 8 | queens | queen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 fly | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 males | cc |
| 10 | males | male | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 queens | conj |
| 11 | fly | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | out | out | ADV | _ | 11 fly | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 mate | mark |
| 14 | mate | mate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 fly | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 pulls | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 pulls | cc |
| 17 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 queen | det |
| 18 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 queen | amod |
| 19 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pulls | nsubj |
| 20 | pulls | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 fly | conj |
| 21 | off | off | ADP | _ | 20 pulls | compound:prt |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 wings | nmod:poss |
| 23 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 pulls | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 starts | cc |
| 25 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 pulls | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 nest | det |
| 27 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 nest | amod |
| 28 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 starts | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 fly | 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 | fly in a quote | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | fly out | present | young queens and males | day | out property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | mate | to-infinitive | young queens and males not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | pull off | present | each new queen | queen's wings | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | start | present | each new queen not said here | a new nest | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Eventuality |
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:7.
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): R6-punct-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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