Ants of the world: weaver ants, bullet ants, honeypot ants and trap-jaw ants, sentence 12
Honeypot ants have workers called repletes whose bellies stretch full of sweet liquid; they hang from the nest ceiling as living food stores, and Aboriginal people in Australia have long dug them up as a sweet treat.
Who acts: Honeypot ants, workers, bellies, ants, Aboriginal people · What happens: have, call, stretch, hang, live, dig up · To what, where: workers, repletes, food stores, nest ceiling, ants · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Ants of the world: weaver ants, bullet ants, honeypot ants and trap-jaw ants» 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 (Honeypot ants, workers, bellies, 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 | Honeypot | honeypot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ants | compound |
| 2 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obj |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 workers | acl |
| 6 | repletes | replete | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 called | xcomp |
| 7 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 8 bellies | nmod:poss |
| 8 | bellies | belly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 stretch | nsubj |
| 9 | stretch | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 repletes | acl:relcl |
| 10 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stretch | xcomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 liquid | case |
| 12 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 liquid | amod |
| 13 | liquid | liquid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 full | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 hang | punct |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 hang | nsubj |
| 16 | hang | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | conj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 ceiling | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ceiling | det |
| 19 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ceiling | compound |
| 20 | ceiling | ceiling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hang | obl |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 living | mark |
| 22 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 hang | advcl |
| 23 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stores | compound |
| 24 | stores | store | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 hang | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 dug | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 have | cc |
| 27 | Aboriginal | aboriginal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 people | amod |
| 28 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 dug | nsubj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 Australia | case |
| 30 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 people | nmod |
| 31 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 dug | aux |
| 32 | long | long | ADV | _ | 33 dug | advmod |
| 33 | dug | dig | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 have | conj |
| 34 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 dug | obj |
| 35 | up | up | ADP | _ | 33 dug | compound:prt |
| 36 | as | as | ADP | _ | 39 treat | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 treat | det |
| 38 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 treat | amod |
| 39 | treat | treat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 dug | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Honeypot ants | workers | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worker=Patient | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | workers not said here | repletes | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | stretch | present | bellies | full property | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | hang | present | ants = ant | food stores | the nest ceiling | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | live | gerund | ants = ant not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | dig up | present · perfect | Aboriginal people in Australia | ants = ant | as a sweet treat; long property | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent they=Result as treat=Attribute |
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.
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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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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