--- title: Army ants raid in a moving carpet of hundreds of thousands, and antb… — The Amazon forest floor: leafcutters, army ants,… · tree and pragmatics description: Army ants raid in a moving carpet of hundreds of thousands, and antbirds follow to catch the insects fleeing in front, not to eat the ants. Who acts: Army ants, antbirds, insects. A sentence of the lesson «The Amazon forest floor: leafcutters, army ants, tapirs, jaguars and the giant spider» of the --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/157-the-amazon-forest-floor/6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The Amazon forest floor: leafcutters,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/157-the-amazon-forest-floor/) / 6 # The Amazon forest floor: leafcutters, army ants, tapirs, jaguars and the giant spider, sentence 6 Army ants raid in a moving carpet of hundreds of thousands, and antbirds follow to catch the insects fleeing in front, not to eat the ants. **Who acts:** Army ants, antbirds, insects · **What happens:** raid, move, follow, catch, flee, not eat · **To what, where:** moving carpet, insects, front, ants This is a sentence of the lesson «The Amazon forest floor: leafcutters, army ants, tapirs, jaguars and the giant spider» 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 (Army ants, antbirds, insects), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:157-the-amazon-forest-floor.lesson:6 # text = Army ants raid in a moving carpet of hundreds of thousands, and antbirds follow to catch the insects fleeing in front, not to eat the ants. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 157-the-amazon-forest-floor.lesson # annotation = 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 ×1 1 Army army NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 ants ant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 raid raid VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 moving move VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 amod _ _ 7 carpet carpet NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 hundreds hundred NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 antbirds antbird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 follow follow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:xcomp 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 20 fleeing flee VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 acl _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 ants ant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **raid** | present | Army ants | | | a moving carpet of hundreds of thousands | | | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **move** | gerund | | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **follow** | present | antbirds | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **catch** | to-infinitive | antbirds *not said here* | the insects | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Theme | | 5 | **flee** | gerund | the insects *not said here* | | | front | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **not** **eat** | to-infinitive | antbirds *not said here* | the ants | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ant=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:157-the-amazon-forest-floor.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): R7-rel-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The Amazon forest floor: leafcutters,…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/157-the-amazon-forest-floor/5/) - next →: [The Amazon forest floor: leafcutters,…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/157-the-amazon-forest-floor/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/157-the-amazon-forest-floor/)