--- title: Ants can carry many times their own weight, because small animals ar… — Ants: colonies, queens, farmers and living bridges · tree and pragmatics description: Ants can carry many times their own weight, because small animals are strong for their size; a dog-sized ant could hardly stand. Who acts: Ants, small animals, sized ant. 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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 (Ants, small animals, sized ant), 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:12 # text = Ants can carry many times their own weight, because small animals are strong for their size; a dog-sized ant could hardly stand. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Ants ant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 6 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 because because SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 11 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 13 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 advcl _ _ 15 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 20 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ _ 22 sized size ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 ant ant NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 24 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 parataxis _ _ 27 . . 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 | **carry** | can | Ants | floods's own weight | | | time | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | small animals | | | | | for floods's size; strong *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **stand** | could | a sized ant | | | | | hardly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «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:12`. **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): R5-strong ×1, 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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