Animal builders: termite mounds, weaver birds and other nest makers, sentence 6
The termites live in the nest underground; air moves through the mound as the day warms and cools, and the Eastgate Centre in Zimbabwe was designed with cooling ideas from termite mounds.
Who acts: termites, air, day · What happens: live, move, warm, cool, design · To what, where: nest, mound, Eastgate Centre
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, air, day), 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 | 3 live | nsubj |
| 3 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 nest | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 nest | det |
| 6 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 live | obl |
| 7 | underground | underground | ADV | _ | 3 live | advmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 mound | punct |
| 9 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 moves | nsubj |
| 10 | moves | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 live | parataxis |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 mound | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mound | det |
| 13 | mound | mound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 moves | obl |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 warms | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 day | det |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 warms | nsubj |
| 17 | warms | warm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 moves | advcl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 cools | cc |
| 19 | cools | cool | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 warms | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 designed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 designed | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Centre | det |
| 23 | Eastgate | Eastgate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Centre | compound |
| 24 | Centre | Centre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 designed | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 Zimbabwe | case |
| 26 | Zimbabwe | Zimbabwe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Centre | nmod |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 designed | aux:pass |
| 28 | designed | design | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 live | conj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 ideas | case |
| 30 | cooling | cooling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 ideas | compound |
| 31 | ideas | idea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 designed | obl |
| 32 | from | from | ADP | _ | 34 mounds | case |
| 33 | termite | termite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 mounds | compound |
| 34 | mounds | mound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 ideas | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 live | 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 | live | present | the termites | the nest | underground property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in nest=Location | |||
| 2 | move | present | air | the mound | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme through mound=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | warm | present | the day | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | cool | present | the day not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | design | past · passive | the Eastgate Centre in Zimbabwe | with cooling ideas from termite mounds | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
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:6.
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): 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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