Insects: six legs, three parts; ants, bees and wasps, sentence 14

Wasps build nests of paper by chewing wood and mixing it with spit, in six-sided cells, which fit together with no gaps and use the least material.

Who acts: Wasps, six sided cells · What happens: build, chew, mix, fit together, use · To what, where: nests, six sided cells, wood, least material

This is a sentence of the lesson «Insects: six legs, three parts; ants, bees and wasps» 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 (Wasps, six sided cells), 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	Wasps	wasp	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 build	nsubj
2	build	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 build	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 paper	case
5	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nests	nmod
6	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 chewing	mark
7	chewing	chew	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 build	advcl
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chewing	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 mixing	cc
10	mixing	mix	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 chewing	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 mixing	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 spit	case
13	spit	spit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mixing	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 cells	punct
15	in	in	ADP	_	19 cells	case
16	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 cells	nummod
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 six	punct
18	sided	sided	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 cells	amod
19	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 build	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 fit	punct
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 fit	nsubj
22	fit	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 cells	acl:relcl
23	together	together	ADV	_	22 fit	advmod
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 gaps	case
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	26 gaps	det
26	gaps	gap	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 fit	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 use	cc
28	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 fit	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 material	det
30	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	31 material	amod
31	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 use	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 build	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	build	present	Wasps	nests of paper	six sided cells		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset nest=Product
2	chew	gerund	Wasps not said here	wood			vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Patient
3	mix	gerund	Wasps not said here	wood		with spit	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient with spit=Co-Patient
4	fit together	present	six sided cells			with no gaps; together property	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
5	use	present	six sided cells not said here	the least material			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent material=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:036-insects-six-legs-ants-bees-and-wasps.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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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