--- title: Ants defend their nest when it is poked; small creatures matter and… — Kindness to wild animals · tree and pragmatics description: Ants defend their nest when it is poked; small creatures matter and help the world work, by cleaning up and mixing the soil. Who acts: Ants, small creatures. A sentence of the lesson «Kindness to wild animals» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/226-kindness-to-wild-animals/7/) [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/) / [Kindness to wild animals](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/226-kindness-to-wild-animals/) / 7 # Kindness to wild animals, sentence 7 Ants defend their nest when it is poked; small creatures matter and help the world work, by cleaning up and mixing the soil. **Who acts:** Ants, small creatures · **What happens:** defend, poke, matter, help, work, clean up · **To what, where:** nest, soil This is a sentence of the lesson «Kindness to wild animals» 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 (Ants, small creatures), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:226-kindness-to-wild-animals.lesson:7 # text = Ants defend their nest when it is poked; small creatures matter and help the world work, by cleaning up and mixing the soil. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 226-kindness-to-wild-animals.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Ants ant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 defend defend VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 nest nest NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 when when SCONJ WRB _ 8 mark _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 poked poke VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 advcl _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct 10 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 creatures creature NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 matter matter VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:det 16 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 work work VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 by by SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 20 cleaning clean VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 21 up up ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 mixing mix VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 conj _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **defend** | present | Ants | Ants's nest | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Beneficiary | | 2 | **poke** | present · passive | | nest | | | | | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **matter** | present | small creatures | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **help** | present | small creatures *not said here* | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **work** | infinitive | small creatures *not said here* | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **clean up** | gerund | small creatures *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **mix** | gerund | small creatures *not said here* | the soil | | | | | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=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:226-kindness-to-wild-animals.lesson:7`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Kindness to wild animals, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/226-kindness-to-wild-animals/6/) - next →: [Kindness to wild animals, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/226-kindness-to-wild-animals/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/226-kindness-to-wild-animals/)