--- title: In a nest the queen lays the eggs, and the workers, all females and… — Ants: colonies, queens, farmers and living bridges · tree and pragmatics description: In a nest the queen lays the eggs, and the workers, all females and sisters, care for the young, dig and fetch food. Who acts: queen, workers. A sentence of the lesson «Ants: colonies, queens, farmers and living bridges» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the --- [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/5/) [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/) / 5 # Ants: colonies, queens, farmers and living bridges, sentence 5 In a nest the queen lays the eggs, and the workers, all females and sisters, care for the young, dig and fetch food. **Who acts:** queen, workers · **What happens:** lay, care, dig, fetch · **To what, where:** eggs, nest, food 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, 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:5 # text = In a nest the queen lays the eggs, and the workers, all females and sisters, care for the young, dig and fetch food. # 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 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 nest nest NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|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 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 workers worker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 15 det _ _ 15 females female NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 sisters sister NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj 18 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 19 care care VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 dig dig VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 fetch fetch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 27 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **lay** | present | the queen | the eggs | | a nest | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in nest=Destination | | 2 | **care** | present | the workers and all females and sisters | | | | | for the young | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for young=Theme | | 3 | **dig** | present | the workers and all females and sisters *not said here* | | | | | | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **fetch** | present | the workers and all females and sisters *not said here* | food | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=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:5`. **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. **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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