Ants of the world: weaver ants, bullet ants, honeypot ants and trap-jaw ants, sentence 19
Small ants can carry many times their own weight, and weaver ants were photographed holding about 100 times their weight upside down.
Who acts: Small ants · What happens: carry, photograph, hold · To what, where: own weight, weaver ants, weight
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 (Small 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 | Small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 ants | amod |
| 2 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 carry | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 carry | aux |
| 4 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 times | amod |
| 6 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 carry | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 weight | nmod:poss |
| 8 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 weight | amod |
| 9 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carry | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 photographed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 photographed | cc |
| 12 | weaver | weaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ants | compound |
| 13 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 photographed | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 photographed | aux:pass |
| 15 | photographed | photograph | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 carry | conj |
| 16 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 photographed | advcl |
| 17 | about | about | ADV | _ | 18 100 | advmod |
| 18 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 times | nummod |
| 19 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 holding | obl |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 weight | nmod:poss |
| 21 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 holding | obj |
| 22 | upside | upside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 holding | obj |
| 23 | down | down | ADV | _ | 16 holding | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 carry | 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 | carry | can | Small ants | ants's own weight | time | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Theme | |||
| 2 | photograph | past · passive | weaver ants | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hold | gerund | ants's weight | time | down property | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent weight=Theme upside=Eventuality |
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:19.
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 ×4. 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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