--- title: Some soldier termites press twisted jaws together until they slip, l… — Record-breakers: the fastest and the slowest · tree and pragmatics description: Some soldier termites press twisted jaws together until they slip, like snapping fingers, and this snap is one of the fastest movements known in any animal. Who acts: soldier termites, jaws, snap. 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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 (soldier termites, jaws, snap), 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:13 # text = Some soldier termites press twisted jaws together until they slip, like snapping fingers, and this snap is one of the fastest movements known in any animal. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 3 det _ _ 2 soldier soldier NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 termites termite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 press press VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 twisted twisted VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 6 jaws jaw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 together together ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 8 until until SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 slip slip VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 like like ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 snapping snap VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 amod _ _ 14 fingers finger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 18 det _ _ 18 snap snap NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 conj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 fastest fast ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 24 amod _ _ 24 movements movement NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 25 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 acl _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 28 det _ _ 28 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **press** | present | some soldier termites | twisted jaws | | | | together *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jaw=Theme | | 2 | **twisted** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **slip** | present | jaws *= jaw* | | | | | like snapping fingers | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **snap** | gerund | | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | present | this snap | one | | | | of the fastest movements | tree rules | | 6 | **know** | participle | | the fastest movements *not said here* | | | | in any animal | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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:13`. **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): R8-pos-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. 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