Ants of the world: weaver ants, bullet ants, honeypot ants and trap-jaw ants, sentence 2
Weaver ants sew leaves into nests, holding their own larvae like glue sticks that spin silk.
Who acts: Weaver ants, glue sticks · What happens: sew, hold, spin · To what, where: leaves, nests, own larvae, silk
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 (Weaver ants, glue sticks), 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 | Weaver | weaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ants | compound |
| 2 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sew | nsubj |
| 3 | sew | sew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sew | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 nests | case |
| 6 | nests | nest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sew | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 silk | punct |
| 8 | holding | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 sew | advcl |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 larvae | nmod:poss |
| 10 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 larvae | amod |
| 11 | larvae | larva | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 holding | obj |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 sticks | case |
| 13 | glue | glue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sticks | compound |
| 14 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 larvae | nmod |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 spin | nsubj |
| 16 | spin | spin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 sticks | acl:relcl |
| 17 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 spin | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sew | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sew | present | Weaver ants | leaves | nests | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent leaf=Material into nest=Product | |||
| 2 | hold | gerund | Weaver ants not said here | ants's own larvae | like glue sticks | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent larva=Theme | |||
| 3 | spin | present | glue sticks | silk | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent silk=Theme |
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:2.
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): no change. 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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