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title: The bullet ant has one of the most painful insect stings known, and… — The Amazon forest floor: leafcutters, army ants,… · tree and pragmatics
description: The bullet ant has one of the most painful insect stings known, and the pain can last for many hours. Who acts: bullet ant, pain. 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 with its d
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# The Amazon forest floor: leafcutters, army ants, tapirs, jaguars and the giant spider, sentence 8

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The bullet ant has one of the most painful insect stings known, and the pain can last for many hours.

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**Who acts:** bullet ant, pain · **What happens:** have, know, last · **To what, where:** one, painful insect stings

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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 (bullet ant, pain), 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:8
# text = The bullet ant has one of the most painful insect stings known, and the pain can last for many hours.
# 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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	bullet	bullet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	ant	ant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	9	advmod	_	_
9	painful	painful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	insect	insect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	stings	sting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
12	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	last	last	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the bullet ant | one of the painful insect stings |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
| 2 | **know** | participle |  | the painful insect stings *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **last** | can | the pain |  |  |  | hour |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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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