--- title: Some termites in northern Australia build tall flat mounds, called m… — The Australian outback: red kangaroos, emus, tho… · tree and pragmatics description: Some termites in northern Australia build tall flat mounds, called magnetic termite mounds, lined up north to south, which helps keep the inside cooler than the outside. Who acts: termites, tall flat mounds. A sentence of the lesson «The Australian outback: red kangaroos, emus, thorny devils and run --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/165-the-australian-outback-kangaroos-emus-thorny-devils-and-runaway-toads/10/) [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 Australian outback: red kangaroos,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/165-the-australian-outback-kangaroos-emus-thorny-devils-and-runaway-toads/) / 10 # The Australian outback: red kangaroos, emus, thorny devils and runaway camels and toads, sentence 10 Some termites in northern Australia build tall flat mounds, called magnetic termite mounds, lined up north to south, which helps keep the inside cooler than the outside. **Who acts:** termites, tall flat mounds · **What happens:** build, call, line up, help, keep · **To what, where:** tall flat mounds, magnetic termite mounds · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «The Australian outback: red kangaroos, emus, thorny devils and runaway camels and toads» 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 (termites, tall flat mounds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:165-the-australian-outback-kangaroos-emus-thorny-devils-and-runaway-toads.lesson:10 # text = Some termites in northern Australia build tall flat mounds, called magnetic termite mounds, lined up north to south, which helps keep the inside cooler than the outside. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 165-the-australian-outback-kangaroos-emus-thorny-devils-and-runaway-toads.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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 termites termite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 northern northern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 build build VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 mounds mound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ _ 12 magnetic magnetic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 13 termite termite NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 mounds mound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 lined line VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:acl 17 up up ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 18 north north ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:mark|HaikuPos=PART:TO:_ 20 south south ADV RB _ 18 advcl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 23 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl:relcl _ _ 24 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:det 26 inside inside ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 cooler cool ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 24 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 28 than than ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 outside outside ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:obl 31 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **build** | present | some termites in northern Australia | tall flat mounds | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mound=Product | | 2 | **call** | participle | tall flat mounds *not said here* | magnetic termite mounds | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mound=Recipient | | 3 | **line up** | participle | | tall flat mounds *not said here* | | | | north *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **help** | present | | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **keep** | infinitive | | | | | | cool *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:165-the-australian-outback-kangaroos-emus-thorny-devils-and-runaway-toads.lesson:10`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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