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title: Some honeypot ant workers swell with sweet liquid and hang from the… — Ants: colonies, queens, farmers and living bridges · tree and pragmatics
description: Some honeypot ant workers swell with sweet liquid and hang from the nest roof like living jars, storing food for hard times. Who acts: honeypot ant workers. A sentence of the lesson «Ants: colonies, queens, farmers and living bridges» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependenc
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# Ants: colonies, queens, farmers and living bridges, sentence 16

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Some honeypot ant workers swell with sweet liquid and hang from the nest roof like living jars, storing food for hard times.

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**Who acts:** honeypot ant workers · **What happens:** swell, hang, store · **To what, where:** nest roof, food

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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 (honeypot ant workers), 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:16
# text = Some honeypot ant workers swell with sweet liquid and hang from the nest roof like living jars, storing food for hard times.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
2	honeypot	honeypot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	ant	ant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	swell	swell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	liquid	liquid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	hang	hang	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
17	jars	jar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	storing	store	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
20	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swell** | present | some honeypot ant workers |  |  |  |  | with sweet liquid | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **hang** | present | some honeypot ant workers *not said here* |  |  | the nest roof |  | like living jars | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **store** | gerund | some honeypot ant workers *not said here* | food |  |  | time |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme |

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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.

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**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:16`.

**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, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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