Insects: six legs, three parts; ants, bees and wasps, sentence 9

Leafcutter ants do not eat the leaves they carry: they chew them to grow a fungus garden underground and eat the fungus.

Who acts: Leafcutter ants, Ants · What happens: not eat, carry, chew, grow, eat · To what, where: leaves, fungus garden, fungus

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 (Leafcutter ants, 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	Leafcutter	leafcutter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ants	compound
2	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eat	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 eat	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 eat	advmod
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 leaves	det
7	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eat	obj
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 carry	nsubj
9	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 leaves	acl:relcl
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 chew	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 chew	nsubj
12	chew	chew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 eat	parataxis
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 chew	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 grow	mark
15	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 chew	xcomp
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 garden	det
17	fungus	fungus	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 garden	compound
18	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 grow	obj
19	underground	underground	ADV	_	15 grow	advmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 eat	cc
21	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 grow	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 fungus	det
23	fungus	fungus	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 eat	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 eat	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not eat	present · do-support	Leafcutter ants	the leaves		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient
2	carry	present	Ants = ant	the leaves not said here		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme
3	chew	present	Ants = ant	leaves = leaf		tree rules
4	grow	to-infinitive	Ants = ant not said here	a fungus garden	underground property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location garden=Theme
5	eat	infinitive	Ants = ant not said here	the fungus		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fungus=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:9.

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): R7-rel-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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