--- title: Trap-jaw ants lock their jaws open and snap them shut faster than al… — Record-breakers: the fastest and the slowest · tree and pragmatics description: Trap-jaw ants lock their jaws open and snap them shut faster than almost any other animal movement, and they can snap against the ground to flip into the air. Who acts: jaw ants, kilometres. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (jaw ants, kilometres), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:185-record-breakers-the-fastest-and-the-slowest.lesson:12 # text = Trap-jaw ants lock their jaws open and snap them shut faster than almost any other animal movement, and they can snap against the ground to flip into the air. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 185-record-breakers-the-fastest-and-the-slowest.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 ×2 1 Trap trap NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ _ 3 jaw jaw NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 ants ant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 lock lock VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 jaws jaw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:amod 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 snap snap VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 11 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 shut shut ADV RB _ 10 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:advmod 13 faster fast ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 10 xcomp _ _ 14 than than ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 15 almost almost ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 16 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 19 det _ _ 17 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 movement movement NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 snap snap VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 25 against against ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 flip flip VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 advcl _ _ 30 into into ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **lock** | present | jaw ants | kilometres's jaws | | | | open *property* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jaw=Patient | | 2 | **snap** | infinitive | jaw ants *not said here* | jaws *= jaw* | | | | fast *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme | | 3 | **snap** | can | kilometres *= kilometre* | | | the ground | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against ground=Location | | 4 | **flip** | to-infinitive | kilometres *= kilometre* *not said here* | | | the air | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent into air=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](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:185-record-breakers-the-fastest-and-the-slowest.lesson:12`. **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 ×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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