The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantulas and scorpions, sentence 6
Tiny leafcutter workers ride on the leaf pieces to guard the carriers from flies, and a big nest can hold millions of ants with a queen that lives over ten years.
Who acts: Tiny leafcutter workers, big nest, queen · What happens: ride, guard, hold, live · To what, where: leaf pieces, carriers, millions
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 (Tiny leafcutter workers, big nest, queen), 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 | Tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 workers | amod |
| 2 | leafcutter | leafcutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 workers | compound |
| 3 | workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ride | nsubj |
| 4 | ride | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 pieces | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 pieces | det |
| 7 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pieces | compound |
| 8 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ride | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 guard | mark |
| 10 | guard | guard | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ride | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 carriers | det |
| 12 | carriers | carrier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 guard | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 flies | case |
| 14 | flies | fly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 guard | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hold | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 hold | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 nest | det |
| 18 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 nest | amod |
| 19 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hold | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 hold | aux |
| 21 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ride | conj |
| 22 | millions | million | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 hold | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 ants | case |
| 24 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 millions | nmod |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 queen | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 queen | det |
| 27 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hold | obl |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 lives | nsubj |
| 29 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 queen | acl:relcl |
| 30 | over | over | ADV | _ | 31 ten | advmod |
| 31 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 years | nummod |
| 32 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 lives | obl:unmarked |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ride | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | present | Tiny leafcutter workers | the leaf pieces | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | guard | to-infinitive | Tiny leafcutter workers not said here | the carriers | from flies | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent carrier=Beneficiary from fly=Theme | |||
| 3 | hold | can | a big nest | millions of ants | with a queen | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent million=Theme | |||
| 4 | live | present | a queen | year | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:6.
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): no change. 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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