Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant farms and hermit crabs, sentence 4
Ants carry their dead to a far corner to keep germs away.
Who acts: Ants · What happens: carry, keep away · To what, where: dead, far corner, germs
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 (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 | Ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 carry | nsubj |
| 2 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 dead | nmod:poss |
| 4 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 carry | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 corner | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 corner | det |
| 7 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 corner | amod |
| 8 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 carry | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 keep | mark |
| 10 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 carry | advcl |
| 11 | germs | germ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 keep | obj |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 keep | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | present | Ants | ants's dead | a far corner | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dead=Theme to corner=Destination | |||
| 2 | keep away | to-infinitive | Ants not said here | germs | away property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=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: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): 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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