--- title: Termites are sometimes called white ants but are not ants at all; th… — Ants: colonies, queens, farmers and living bridges · tree and pragmatics description: Termites are sometimes called white ants but are not ants at all; they are closer to cockroaches, and their colonies have a king as well as a queen. Who acts: Termites, colonies. 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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 (Termites, colonies), 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:15 # text = Termites are sometimes called white ants but are not ants at all; they are closer to cockroaches, and their colonies have a king as well as a queen. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Termites termite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 3 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 4 advmod _ _ 4 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 ants ant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obj 7 but but CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 ants ant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 10 nmod _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 closer close ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 xcomp _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 cockroaches cockroach NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 colonies colony NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 as as ADV RB ExtPos=CCONJ 30 cc _ _ 27 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 26 fixed _ _ 28 as as ADP IN _ 26 fixed _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | present · passive | | Termites | | | | sometimes *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 2 | **not** **is a** | present | | ants | | all | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | Termites *= termite* | | | | | to cockroaches; close *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **have** | present | Termites's colonies | a king as a queen | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=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:15`. **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): 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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