Insects: six legs, three parts; ants, bees and wasps, sentence 3
Ants, bees and wasps live in big families run by a queen: ants follow smell trails to a crumb on the patio, and a honeybee dances on the comb to tell her sisters where the flowers are.
Who acts: Ants, honeybee, flowers · What happens: live, run, follow, dance, tell, be · To what, where: big families, smell trails, crumb, comb, sisters · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Ants, honeybee, flowers), 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 | 6 live | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bees | punct |
| 3 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Ants | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 wasps | cc |
| 5 | wasps | wasp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Ants | conj |
| 6 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 families | case |
| 8 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 families | amod |
| 9 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 live | obl |
| 10 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 families | acl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 queen | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 queen | det |
| 13 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 run | obl:agent |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 follow | punct |
| 15 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 follow | nsubj |
| 16 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 live | parataxis |
| 17 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 trails | compound |
| 18 | trails | trail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 follow | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 crumb | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 crumb | det |
| 21 | crumb | crumb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 follow | obl |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 patio | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 patio | det |
| 24 | patio | patio | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 crumb | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 dances | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 dances | cc |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 honeybee | det |
| 28 | honeybee | honeybee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 dances | nsubj |
| 29 | dances | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 trails | conj |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 comb | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 comb | det |
| 32 | comb | comb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 dances | obl |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 tell | mark |
| 34 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 dances | advcl |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 36 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 tell | obj |
| 37 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 34 tell | ccomp |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 flowers | det |
| 39 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 where | nsubj |
| 40 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 where | cop |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 live | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | Ants and bees and wasps | big families | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in family=Location | ||||
| 2 | run | participle | big families not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | follow | present | ants | smell trails | a crumb on the patio | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent trail=Theme to crumb=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | dance | present | a honeybee | the comb | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on comb=Location | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | a honeybee not said here | honeybee's sisters | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | is | present | the flowers | where property | tree rules |
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:3.
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 ×2, 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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