Animal builders: termite mounds, weaver birds and other nest makers, sentence 10

Sociable weavers in the Kalahari build giant shared nests like haystacks in trees, with many rooms and over 100 birds; the thick straw keeps them cool by day and warm on freezing desert nights, and a nest can last over 100 years.

Who acts: Sociable weavers, thick straw, nest · What happens: build, share, keep, last · To what, where: giant shared nests, Birds

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 (Sociable weavers, thick straw, nest), 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	Sociable	sociable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 weavers	amod
2	weavers	weaver	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 build	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 Kalahari	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Kalahari	det
5	Kalahari	Kalahari	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 weavers	nmod
6	build	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 nests	amod
8	shared	share	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 nests	amod
9	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 build	obj
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 haystacks	case
11	haystacks	haystack	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 nests	nmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 trees	case
13	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 haystacks	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 rooms	punct
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 rooms	case
16	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 rooms	amod
17	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 nests	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 birds	cc
19	over	over	ADV	_	20 100	advmod
20	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 birds	nummod
21	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 rooms	conj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 keeps	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 straw	det
24	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 straw	amod
25	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 keeps	nsubj
26	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 build	parataxis
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 keeps	obj
28	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 keeps	xcomp
29	by	by	ADP	_	30 day	case
30	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 cool	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 warm	cc
32	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 cool	conj
33	on	on	ADP	_	36 nights	case
34	freezing	freezing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 nights	amod
35	desert	desert	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 nights	amod
36	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 warm	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 last	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 last	cc
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 nest	det
40	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 last	nsubj
41	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 last	aux
42	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 keeps	conj
43	over	over	ADP	_	45 years	case
44	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	45 years	nummod
45	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 last	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 build	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	build	present	Sociable weavers in the Kalahari	giant shared nests and many rooms and 100 birds		like haystacks in trees	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset nest=Product
2	share	participle					tree rules
3	keep	present	the thick straw	Birds = bird		cool property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	last	can	a nest		year		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=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:243-animal-builders-termite-mounds-weaver-birds-and-other-nest-makers.lesson:10.

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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