--- title: One ant on its own is not very clever, but a colony of thousands wor… — Ants: colonies, queens, farmers and living bridges · tree and pragmatics description: One ant on its own is not very clever, but a colony of thousands works like one big animal that finds food, builds, farms and defends itself. Who acts: One ant, colony, one big animal. 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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 (One ant, colony, one big animal), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:238-ants-colonies-queens-farmers-and-living-bridges.lesson:0 # text = One ant on its own is not very clever, but a colony of thousands works like one big animal that finds food, builds, farms and defends itself. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 238-ants-colonies-queens-farmers-and-living-bridges.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 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 ant ant NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 nmod _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 8 very very ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 colony colony NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 16 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 17 like like ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 19 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 21 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 22 finds find VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 23 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 builds build VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 farms farm VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 defends defend VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 30 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 29 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** | present | One ant on ant's own | | | | | clever *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **work** | present | a colony of thousands | | | | | like one big animal | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **find** | present | one big animal | food | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic | | 4 | **build** | present | one big animal *not said here* | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **farm** | present | one big animal *not said here* | | | | | | vn rear-26.2.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **defend** | present | one big animal *not said here* | food | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Beneficiary | 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:238-ants-colonies-queens-farmers-and-living-bridges.lesson:0`. **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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