--- title: In the nest a queen lays the eggs and her daughters, the workers, do… — Ants: colonies, queens, farmers and living bridges · tree and pragmatics description: In the nest a queen lays the eggs and her daughters, the workers, do all the other jobs; no ant gives orders, each one follows simple rules. Who acts: queen, ant, one. A sentence of the lesson «Ants: colonies, queens, farmers and living bridges» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with it --- [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/2/) [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/) / 2 # Ants: colonies, queens, farmers and living bridges, sentence 2 In the nest a queen lays the eggs and her daughters, the workers, do all the other jobs; no ant gives orders, each one follows simple rules. **Who acts:** queen, ant, one · **What happens:** lay, do, give, follow · **To what, where:** eggs, nest, other jobs, orders, simple rules 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 (queen, ant, one), 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:2 # text = In the nest a queen lays the eggs and her daughters, the workers, do all the other jobs; no ant gives orders, each one follows simple rules. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 nest nest NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 lays lay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 daughters daughter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 workers worker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:appos 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 16 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 17 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 20 det:predet _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 jobs job NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 23 det _ _ 23 ant ant NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 25 orders order NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 28 det _ _ 28 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 follows follow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 30 simple simple ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lay** | present | a queen | the eggs and queen's daughters | | the nest | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in nest=Destination | | 2 | **do** | present | a queen *not said here* | all other jobs | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality | | 3 | **give** | present | no ant | orders | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | | 4 | **follow** | present | each one | simple rules | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=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:2`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×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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