Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant farms and hermit crabs, sentence 14

An ant colony needs a queen to lay eggs or it slowly dies out, and ants from shops without a queen last only a few months.

Who acts: ant colony, queen, colony, ants · What happens: need, lay, die out, last · To what, where: queen, eggs

This is a sentence of the lesson «Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant farms and hermit crabs» 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 (ant colony, queen, colony, 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 colony	det
2	ant	ant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 colony	compound
3	colony	colony	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 needs	nsubj
4	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 queen	det
6	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 needs	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 lay	mark
8	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 needs	xcomp
9	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lay	obj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 dies	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 dies	nsubj
12	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	13 dies	advmod
13	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 needs	conj
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 dies	compound:prt
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 last	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 last	cc
17	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 last	nsubj
18	from	from	ADP	_	19 shops	case
19	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 ants	nmod
20	without	without	ADP	_	22 queen	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 queen	det
22	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ants	nmod
23	last	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 needs	conj
24	only	only	ADV	_	27 months	advmod
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 months	det
26	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 months	amod
27	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 last	obl:unmarked
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 needs	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	a ant colony	a queen			tree rules
2	lay not said to happen	to-infinitive	a queen not said here	eggs			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result
3	die out	present	colony			slowly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	last	present	ants from shops without a queen		month		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=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:330-unusual-pets-stick-insects-giant-snails-ant-farms-and-hermit-crabs.lesson:14.

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. 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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