--- title: Ants carry dead nestmates to a rubbish pile, which keeps germs away… — Ants: colonies, queens, farmers and living bridges · tree and pragmatics description: Ants carry dead nestmates to a rubbish pile, which keeps germs away from the nest, recognising death by a smell; a live ant dabbed with that smell gets carried out kicking. Who acts: Ants, rubbish pile. 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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, rubbish pile), 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:14 # text = Ants carry dead nestmates to a rubbish pile, which keeps germs away from the nest, recognising death by a smell; a live ant dabbed with that smell gets carried out kicking. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Ants ant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 nestmates nestmate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 rubbish rubbish NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 pile pile NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 12 germs germ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 away away ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 14 from from ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 nest nest NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 recognising recognise VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advcl 19 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 by by ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 smell smell NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 live live ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 ant ant NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 27 dabbed dab VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 acl _ _ 28 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 30 det _ _ 30 smell smell NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 gets get AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 carried carry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 33 out out ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ _ 34 kicking kick VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 32 advcl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **carry** | present | Ants | dead nestmates | | a rubbish pile | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent nestmate=Theme to pile=Destination | | 2 | **keep** | present | a rubbish pile | germs | | | | away *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme | | 3 | **recognise** | gerund | a rubbish pile *not said here* | death | | | | by a smell | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer death=Stimulus | | 4 | **dab** | participle | | a live ant *not said here* | | | | with that smell | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with smell=Theme | | 5 | **carry out** | present · passive | | a live ant | | | | | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | | 6 | **kick** | gerund | | | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | 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:14`. **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, R7-rel-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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