Ants of the world: weaver ants, bullet ants, honeypot ants and trap-jaw ants, sentence 7
Ants are strong for their size because weight shrinks faster than strength as an animal gets smaller.
Who acts: Ants, weight, animal · What happens: be, shrink, get
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, weight, animal), 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 | 3 strong | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 strong | cop |
| 3 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 size | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 size | nmod:poss |
| 6 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 strong | obl |
| 7 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 shrinks | mark |
| 8 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shrinks | nsubj |
| 9 | shrinks | shrink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 strong | advcl |
| 10 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 shrinks | advmod |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 strength | case |
| 12 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 faster | obl |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 gets | mark |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 animal | det |
| 15 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gets | nsubj |
| 16 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 shrinks | advcl |
| 17 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 gets | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 strong | 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 | is | present | Ants | for ants's size; strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shrink | present | weight | fast property | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | get | present | a animal | small property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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:7.
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. 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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