The garden in summer: flowers, aphids, ladybirds and flying ant day, sentence 10
On warm, damp days winged young queens and males leave many ant nests at once; gulls and swifts feast on them, and these flights happen over several weeks, not just one day.
Who acts: winged young queens, gulls, flights · What happens: leave, feast, happen · To what, where: many ant nests
This is a sentence of the lesson «The garden in summer: flowers, aphids, ladybirds and flying ant day» 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 (winged young queens, gulls, flights), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 5 days | case |
| 2 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 days | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 warm | punct |
| 4 | damp | damp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 days | amod |
| 5 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 leave | obl |
| 6 | winged | wing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 queens | amod |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 queens | amod |
| 8 | queens | queen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 leave | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 leave | cc |
| 10 | males | male | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 queens | conj |
| 11 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 nests | amod |
| 13 | ant | ant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 nests | compound |
| 14 | nests | nest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 leave | obj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 once | case |
| 16 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 11 leave | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 gulls | punct |
| 18 | gulls | gull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 feast | nsubj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 swifts | cc |
| 20 | swifts | swift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 gulls | conj |
| 21 | feast | feast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 leave | parataxis |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 them | case |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 feast | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 happen | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 happen | cc |
| 26 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 27 flights | det |
| 27 | flights | flight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 happen | nsubj |
| 28 | happen | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 leave | conj |
| 29 | over | over | ADP | _ | 31 weeks | case |
| 30 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 weeks | amod |
| 31 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 happen | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 day | punct |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 day | advmod |
| 34 | just | just | ADV | _ | 36 day | advmod |
| 35 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 day | nummod |
| 36 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 happen | obl:unmarked |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 leave | 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 | leave | present | winged young queens and males | many ant nests | day | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent nest=Theme at once=Location | |||
| 2 | feast | present | gulls and swifts | on queens = queen | vn dine-39.5 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on they=Patient | ||||
| 3 | happen | present | this flights | day; week | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: 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:334-the-garden-in-summer-flowers-aphids-ladybirds-and-flying-ant-day.lesson:10.
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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