--- title: In floods fire ants link legs into a floating raft with the queen an… — Ants: colonies, queens, farmers and living bridges · tree and pragmatics description: In floods fire ants link legs into a floating raft with the queen and young in the middle, and the raft can float for weeks. Who acts: fire ants, raft. A sentence of the lesson «Ants: colonies, queens, farmers and living bridges» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tre --- [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/11/) [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/) / 11 # Ants: colonies, queens, farmers and living bridges, sentence 11 In floods fire ants link legs into a floating raft with the queen and young in the middle, and the raft can float for weeks. **Who acts:** fire ants, raft · **What happens:** link, float · **To what, where:** legs, floods 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 (fire ants, raft), 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:11 # text = In floods fire ants link legs into a floating raft with the queen and young in the middle, and the raft can float for weeks. # 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 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 floods flood NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 3 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 ants ant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 link link VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 into into ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 floating float VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 10 raft raft NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 conj _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 raft raft NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 23 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 float float VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **link** | present | fire ants | legs | | floods | | into a floating raft; with the queen | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent leg=Patient into raft=Co-Patient | | 2 | **float** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **float** | can | the raft | | | | week | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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:11`. **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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