--- title: Army ants link their bodies into bridges and even a living nest call… — Ants: colonies, queens, farmers and living bridges · tree and pragmatics description: Army ants link their bodies into bridges and even a living nest called a bivouac, with no ant in charge. Who acts: Army ants, living nest. A sentence of the lesson «Ants: colonies, queens, farmers and living bridges» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pra --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/238-ants-colonies-queens-farmers-and-living-bridges/10/) [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/) / [Ants: colonies, queens, farmers and li…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/238-ants-colonies-queens-farmers-and-living-bridges/) / 10 # Ants: colonies, queens, farmers and living bridges, sentence 10 Army ants link their bodies into bridges and even a living nest called a bivouac, with no ant in charge. **Who acts:** Army ants, living nest · **What happens:** link, call · **To what, where:** bodies, bivouac · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Ants: colonies, queens, farmers and living bridges» 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 (Army ants, living nest), 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:10 # text = Army ants link their bodies into bridges and even a living nest called a bivouac, with no ant in charge. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Army army NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 2 ants ant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 link link VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 bodies body NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 into into ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 bridges bridge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 9 even even ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 living living NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 nest nest NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 bivouac bivouac NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 xcomp _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 19 det _ _ 19 ant ant NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 charge charge NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **link** | present | Army ants | aphids's bodies | | | | into bridges | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent body=Patient into bridge=Co-Patient | | 2 | **call** | past | a living nest | a bivouac | | | | with no ant in charge | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:10`. **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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