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title: Some ant queens can live for nearly 30 years, the longest-lived inse… — Ants: colonies, queens, farmers and living bridges · tree and pragmatics
description: Some ant queens can live for nearly 30 years, the longest-lived insects known. Who acts: ant queens. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ants: colonies, queens, farmers and living bridges, sentence 6

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Some ant queens can live for nearly 30 years, the longest-lived insects known.

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**Who acts:** ant queens · **What happens:** live, know · **To what, where:** lived insects

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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 (ant queens), 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:6
# text = Some ant queens can live for nearly 30 years, the longest-lived insects known.
# 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): no change
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	ant	ant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	queens	queen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	longest	long	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	_
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	_
14	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	amod	_	_
15	insects	insect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	appos	_	_
16	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	.	.	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 | **live** | can | some ant queens |  |  |  | year |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **know** | participle |  | the lived insects *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:6`.

**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): no change. **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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