Insects: six legs, three parts; ants, bees and wasps, sentence 8

A scout ant leaves a smell trail from food to the nest; others follow and strengthen it while the food lasts, then the trail fades.

Who acts: scout ant, others, food, trail · What happens: leave, follow, strengthen, last, fade · To what, where: smell trail, food, insect

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 (scout ant, others, food, trail), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 ant	det
2	scout	scout	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ant	compound
3	ant	ant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leaves	nsubj
4	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 trail	det
6	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trail	compound
7	trail	trail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leaves	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 food	case
9	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trail	nmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 nest	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 nest	det
12	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 food	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 follow	punct
14	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 follow	nsubj
15	follow	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 leaves	parataxis
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 strengthen	cc
17	strengthen	strengthen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 follow	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 strengthen	obj
19	while	while	SCONJ	_	22 lasts	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 food	det
21	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lasts	nsubj
22	lasts	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 strengthen	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 lasts	punct
24	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 fades	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 trail	det
26	trail	trail	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fades	nsubj
27	fades	fade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 leaves	parataxis
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 leaves	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	leave	present	a scout ant	a smell trail	food to the nest		vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme trail=Source from food=Destination
2	follow	present	others				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	strengthen	present	others not said here	insect			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	last	present	the food				vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
5	fade	present	the trail			then	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:8.

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 ×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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