The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantulas and scorpions, sentence 13

Dung beetles roll balls of dung to eat or lay eggs in, clearing and burying dung in farmers' fields, and some can steer at night by the Milky Way.

Who acts: Dung beetles, some · What happens: roll, eat, lay, clear, bury, steer · To what, where: balls, eggs, dung, fields

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 (Dung beetles, some), 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	Dung	dung	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 beetles	compound
2	beetles	beetle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 roll	nsubj
3	roll	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	balls	ball	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 roll	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 dung	case
6	dung	dung	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 balls	nmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 eat	mark
8	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 dung	acl
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 lay	cc
10	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 eat	conj
11	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 lay	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	10 lay	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 clearing	punct
14	clearing	clear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 lay	advcl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 burying	cc
16	burying	bury	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 clearing	conj
17	dung	dung	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 burying	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 fields	case
19	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 fields	nmod:poss
20	'	's	PART	_	19 farmers	case
21	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 burying	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 steer	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 steer	cc
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	26 steer	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 steer	aux
26	steer	steer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 eat	conj
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 night	case
28	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 steer	obl
29	by	by	ADP	_	32 Way	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Way	det
31	Milky	milky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 Way	amod
32	Way	Way	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 steer	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 roll	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll	present	Dung beetles	balls of dung				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme
2	eat	to-infinitive	Dung beetles not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	lay	infinitive	Dung beetles not said here	eggs				vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result
4	clear	gerund	Dung beetles not said here					vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source
5	bury	gerund	Dung beetles not said here	dung	farmers's fields			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dung=Theme in field=Destination
6	steer	can	some			night	by the Milky Way	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by way=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:13.

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 ×3, R6-punct-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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