Ants of the world: weaver ants, bullet ants, honeypot ants and trap-jaw ants, sentence 8
That is why a tiny ant can carry a crumb many times its weight, and why a giant ant in an old film would collapse.
Who acts: That, tiny ant, giant ant · What happens: be, carry, collapse · To what, where: crumb
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 (That, tiny ant, giant ant), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 why | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 why | cop |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 ant | det |
| 5 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ant | amod |
| 6 | ant | ant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 carry | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 carry | aux |
| 8 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 why | advcl:relcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 crumb | det |
| 10 | crumb | crumb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 carry | obj |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 times | amod |
| 12 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 carry | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 weight | nmod:poss |
| 14 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 times | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 why | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 why | cc |
| 17 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 why | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 ant | det |
| 19 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 ant | amod |
| 20 | ant | ant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 collapse | nsubj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 film | case |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 film | det |
| 23 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 film | amod |
| 24 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ant | nmod |
| 25 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 collapse | aux |
| 26 | collapse | collapse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 carry | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 why | 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 | That | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | carry | can | a tiny ant | a crumb | time | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crumb=Theme | |||
| 3 | collapse | would | a giant ant in a old film | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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:8.
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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