Ants of the world: weaver ants, bullet ants, honeypot ants and trap-jaw ants, sentence 16
Ants follow scent trails laid by other ants; a line of ants is made by feet and smell, not by a leader.
Who acts: Ants, feet · What happens: follow, lay, make · To what, where: scent trails, line
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 (Ants, feet), 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 | Ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 follow | nsubj |
| 2 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | scent | scent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 trails | compound |
| 4 | trails | trail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 follow | obj |
| 5 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 trails | acl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 ants | case |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ants | amod |
| 8 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 laid | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 made | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 line | det |
| 11 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 ants | case |
| 13 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 line | nmod |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 made | aux:pass |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 follow | parataxis |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 feet | case |
| 17 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 made | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 smell | cc |
| 19 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 feet | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 leader | punct |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 leader | advmod |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 leader | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 leader | det |
| 24 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 follow | 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 | follow | present | Ants | scent trails | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trail=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lay | participle | scent trails not said here | by other ants | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by ant=Destination | ||||
| 3 | make | present · passive | feet and smell | a line of ants | by a leader | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product |
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:304-ants-of-the-world-weaver-ants-bullet-ants-honeypot-ants-and-trap-jaw-ants.lesson:16.
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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