Ants of the world: weaver ants, bullet ants, honeypot ants and trap-jaw ants, sentence 4
Trap-jaw ants snap their jaws so fast they can fling themselves into the air.
Who acts: jaw ants, ants · What happens: snap, fling · To what, where: jaws, ants, air
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 (jaw ants, 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 | Trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 jaw | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Trap | punct |
| 3 | jaw | jaw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ants | compound |
| 4 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 snap | nsubj |
| 5 | snap | snap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 jaws | nmod:poss |
| 7 | jaws | jaw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 snap | obj |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 fast | advmod |
| 9 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 snap | advmod |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 fling | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 fling | aux |
| 12 | fling | fling | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 fast | ccomp |
| 13 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 fling | obj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 air | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 air | det |
| 16 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fling | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 snap | 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 | snap | present | jaw ants | ants's jaws | fast property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location jaw=Theme | |||
| 2 | fling | can | ants = ant | ants = ant | the air | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme into air=Destination |
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:4.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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