--- title: Drop a crumb on the kitchen floor and soon a line of ants is marchin… — Ants: colonies, queens, farmers and living bridges · tree and pragmatics description: Drop a crumb on the kitchen floor and soon a line of ants is marching to it: the first ant left a smell trail and the others follow it. Who acts: you, line, first ant, others. 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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 (you, line, first ant, others), 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:1 # text = Drop a crumb on the kitchen floor and soon a line of ants is marching to it: the first ant left a smell trail and the others follow it. # 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 Drop drop VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 crumb crumb NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 kitchen kitchen NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 9 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 15 advmod _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 ants ant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 marching march VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 conj _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obl _ _ 18 : : PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 21 amod _ _ 21 ant ant NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 smell smell NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 trail trail NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 follow follow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drop** | imperative | you *not said here* | a crumb | | the kitchen floor | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent crumb=Theme on floor=Destination | | 2 | **march** | present · progressive | a line of ants | | | ant | | soon *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to it=Destination | | 3 | **leave** | past | the first ant | a smell trail | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trail=Theme | | 4 | **follow** | present | the others | ant | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | 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:1`. **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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