Animal builders: termite mounds, weaver birds and other nest makers, sentence 2
The termites do not live at the top: they live in the nest below, and the mound works like a pair of lungs and an air conditioner, letting stale air out and fresh air in.
Who acts: termites, mound · What happens: not live, live, work, let out · To what, where: top, nest, stale air
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, mound), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 termites | det |
| 2 | termites | termite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 live | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 live | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 live | advmod |
| 5 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 top | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 top | det |
| 8 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 live | obl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 live | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 live | nsubj |
| 11 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 live | parataxis |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 nest | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 nest | det |
| 14 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 live | obl |
| 15 | below | below | ADV | _ | 11 live | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 works | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 works | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 mound | det |
| 19 | mound | mound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 works | nsubj |
| 20 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 live | conj |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 23 pair | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 pair | det |
| 23 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 works | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 lungs | case |
| 25 | lungs | lung | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 pair | nmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 conditioner | cc |
| 27 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 conditioner | det |
| 28 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 conditioner | compound |
| 29 | conditioner | conditioner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lungs | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 letting | punct |
| 31 | letting | let | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 works | advcl |
| 32 | stale | stale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 air | amod |
| 33 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 letting | obj |
| 34 | out | out | ADV | _ | 31 letting | advmod |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 air | cc |
| 36 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 air | amod |
| 37 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 letting | conj |
| 38 | in | in | ADV | _ | 31 letting | advmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 live | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not live | present · do-support | the termites | the top | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at top=Location | ||||
| 2 | live | present | termites = termite | the nest | below property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in nest=Location | |||
| 3 | work | present | the mound | like a pair of lungs and a air conditioner | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | let out | gerund | the mound not said here | stale air | out property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=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:2.
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, 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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