More builders: caddis cases, paper wasps, moles, apes' beds and sand circles, sentence 1

Animals build with whatever they have: wasps chew wood into paper, moles push soil up into molehills, and ants pile pine needles into a warm dome.

Who acts: Animals, wasps, moles, ants · What happens: build, have, chew, push up, pile · To what, where: wood, paper, soil, molehills, pine needles, warm dome

This is a sentence of the lesson «More builders: caddis cases, paper wasps, moles, apes' beds and sand circles» 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 (Animals, wasps, moles, ants), 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	Animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 build	nsubj
2	build	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 whatever	case
4	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 build	obl
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 have	nsubj
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 whatever	acl:relcl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 chew	punct
8	wasps	wasp	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 chew	nsubj
9	chew	chew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 build	parataxis
10	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chew	obj
11	into	into	ADP	_	12 paper	case
12	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chew	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 push	punct
14	moles	mole	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 push	nsubj
15	push	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 chew	conj
16	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 push	obj
17	up	up	PART	_	15 push	compound:prt
18	into	into	ADP	_	19 molehills	case
19	molehills	molehill	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 push	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 pile	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 pile	cc
22	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 pile	nsubj
23	pile	pile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 chew	conj
24	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 needles	compound
25	needles	needle	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 pile	obj
26	into	into	ADP	_	29 dome	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 dome	det
28	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 dome	amod
29	dome	dome	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pile	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 build	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	build	present	Animals			with whatever	vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent with whatever=Source
2	have	present	Animals = animal				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	chew	present	wasps	wood	paper		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Patient
4	push up	present	moles	soil	molehills		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent soil=Theme into molehill=Destination
5	pile	present	ants	pine needles	a warm dome		vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent needle=Theme into dome=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:245-more-builders-caddis-cases-paper-wasps-moles-apes-beds-and-sand-circles.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×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.

See the release 0.4.

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