More builders: caddis cases, paper wasps, moles, apes' beds and sand circles, sentence 7

Hornets build big paper nests, but only the young queens survive the winter; in spring each queen starts a new nest alone, and an old nest is not used again.

Who acts: Hornets, young queens, queen · What happens: build, survive, start, not use · To what, where: big paper nests, new nest, old nest

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 (Hornets, young queens, queen), 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	Hornets	hornet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 build	nsubj
2	build	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 nests	amod
4	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nests	compound
5	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 build	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 survive	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 survive	cc
8	only	only	ADV	_	11 queens	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 queens	det
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 queens	amod
11	queens	queen	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 survive	nsubj
12	survive	survive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 build	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 winter	det
14	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 survive	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 starts	punct
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 spring	case
17	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 starts	obl
18	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	19 queen	det
19	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 starts	nsubj
20	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 build	parataxis
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 nest	det
22	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 nest	amod
23	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 starts	obj
24	alone	alone	ADV	_	20 starts	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 used	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 used	cc
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 nest	det
28	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 nest	amod
29	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 used	nsubj:pass
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 used	aux:pass
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 used	advmod
32	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 starts	conj
33	again	again	ADV	_	32 used	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 build	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	build	present	Hornets	big paper nests			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset nest=Product
2	survive	present	the young queens		winter		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	start	present	each queen	a new nest	spring	alone property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Eventuality
4	not use	present · passive		a old nest	again		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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: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): R5-strong ×3, 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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