Animal builders: termite mounds, weaver birds and other nest makers, sentence 1
In Africa, termites a few millimetres long build mounds taller than a grown man out of soil, spit and droppings; for a termite that is like people building a tower kilometres high.
Who acts: termites, termite · What happens: build, grow · To what, where: mounds, Africa
This is a sentence of the lesson «Animal builders: termite mounds, weaver birds and other nest makers» 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, termite), 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 | _ | 2 Africa | case |
| 2 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 build | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Africa | punct |
| 4 | termites | termite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 build | nsubj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 millimetres | det |
| 6 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 millimetres | amod |
| 7 | millimetres | millimetre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 termites | nmod:unmarked |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 millimetres | amod |
| 9 | build | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | mounds | mound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 build | obj |
| 11 | taller | tall | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 build | xcomp |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 man | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 14 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 man | amod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 taller | obl |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 soil | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 soil | case |
| 18 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 build | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 spit | punct |
| 20 | spit | spit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 soil | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 droppings | cc |
| 22 | droppings | dropping | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 spit | conj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 termite | punct |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 termite | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 termite | det |
| 26 | termite | termite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 taller | obl |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 building | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 building | aux |
| 29 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 31 building | mark |
| 30 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 building | nsubj |
| 31 | building | build | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 termite | acl |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 kilometres | det |
| 33 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 kilometres | compound |
| 34 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 high | obl |
| 35 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 building | xcomp |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 build | 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 | build | present | termites a few millimetres | mounds | Africa | out soil and spit and droppings; tall property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mound=Product | ||
| 2 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | build | present · progressive | a termite | high property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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:243-animal-builders-termite-mounds-weaver-birds-and-other-nest-makers.lesson:1.
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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