The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantulas and scorpions, sentence 0
Above your head in the insect house a line of leafcutter ants carries green leaf pieces along a rope, and they are not lunch: the ants are farmers taking food to their fungus garden.
Who acts: line, pieces, ants, farmers · What happens: carry, not be, be, take · To what, where: green leaf pieces, head, lunch, farmers, food, fungus garden
This is a sentence of the lesson «The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantulas and scorpions» 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 (line, pieces, ants, farmers), 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 | Above | above | ADP | _ | 3 head | case |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 head | nmod:poss |
| 3 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carries | obl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 6 | insect | insect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 house | compound |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 head | nmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 line | det |
| 9 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carries | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 ants | case |
| 11 | leafcutter | leafcutter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 ants | compound |
| 12 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 line | nmod |
| 13 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 pieces | amod |
| 15 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pieces | compound |
| 16 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 carries | obj |
| 17 | along | along | ADP | _ | 19 rope | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 rope | det |
| 19 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carries | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 lunch | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 lunch | cc |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 lunch | nsubj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 lunch | cop |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 lunch | advmod |
| 25 | lunch | lunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carries | conj |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 30 farmers | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 ants | det |
| 28 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 farmers | nsubj |
| 29 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 farmers | cop |
| 30 | farmers | farmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 lunch | parataxis |
| 31 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 farmers | acl |
| 32 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 taking | obj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 garden | case |
| 34 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 garden | nmod:poss |
| 35 | fungus | fungus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 garden | compound |
| 36 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 taking | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 carries | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | present | a line of leafcutter ants | green leaf pieces | your head in the insect house | along a rope | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme | ||
| 2 | not is a | present | pieces = piece | lunch | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the ants | farmers | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take | gerund | farmers not said here | food | ants's fungus garden | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent food=Theme to garden=Destination |
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:097-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions.lesson:0.
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, R7-rel-agree ×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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