Animal builders: termite mounds, weaver birds and other nest makers, sentence 7

Magnetic termites in Australia build thin, flat mounds pointing north and south: the wide sides catch the weak morning and evening sun, and the thin edge faces the hot midday sun.

Who acts: Magnetic termites, thin flat mounds, wide sides, thin edge · What happens: build, point, catch, face · To what, where: thin flat mounds, hot midday sun.

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 (Magnetic termites, thin flat mounds, wide sides, thin edge), 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	Magnetic	magnetic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 termites	amod
2	termites	termite	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 build	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Australia	case
4	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 termites	nmod
5	build	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mounds	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mounds	punct
8	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mounds	amod
9	mounds	mound	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 build	obj
10	pointing	point	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 mounds	acl
11	north	north	ADV	_	10 pointing	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 south	cc
13	south	south	ADV	_	11 north	conj
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 catch	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sides	det
16	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 sides	amod
17	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 catch	nsubj
18	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 build	parataxis
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 morning	det
20	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 morning	amod
21	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 catch	obl:unmarked
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 sun	cc
23	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sun	compound
24	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 morning	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 faces	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 faces	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 edge	det
28	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 edge	amod
29	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 faces	nsubj
30	faces	face	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 build	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 sun.	det
32	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 sun.	amod
33	midday	midday	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sun.	compound
34	sun.	sun	PROPN	Abbr=Yes Number=Sing	30 faces	obj

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	build	present	Magnetic termites in Australia	thin flat mounds				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mound=Product
2	point	gerund	thin flat mounds not said here				north property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	catch	present	the wide sides			morning		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	face	present	the thin edge		the hot midday sun.			vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sun=Destination

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: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): no change. 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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