--- title: On «flying ant day» young queens and males fly out to mate, and each… — Ants: colonies, queens, farmers and living bridges · tree and pragmatics description: On «flying ant day» young queens and males fly out to mate, and each new queen pulls off her wings and starts a new nest. Who acts: young queens, new queen. A sentence of the lesson «Ants: colonies, queens, farmers and living bridges» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependenc --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Ants: colonies, queens, farmers and living bridges, sentence 7 On «flying ant day» young queens and males fly out to mate, and each new queen pulls off her wings and starts a new nest. **Who acts:** young queens, new queen · **What happens:** fly, fly out, mate, pull off, start · **To what, where:** wings, new nest 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 (young queens, new queen), 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:7 # text = On «flying ant day» young queens and males fly out to mate, and each new queen pulls off her wings and starts a new nest. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 On on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 3 flying fly VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 amod _ _ 4 ant ant NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 6 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 queens queen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 males male NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 11 fly fly VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 out out ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 mate mate VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 19 det _ _ 18 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 pulls pull VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 21 off off ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 22 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 starts start VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 nest nest NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 11 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 | **fly** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **fly out** | present | young queens and males | | | | day | out *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **mate** | to-infinitive | young queens and males *not said here* | | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **pull off** | present | each new queen | queen's wings | | | | | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Eventuality | | 5 | **start** | present | each new queen *not said here* | a new nest | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Eventuality | 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:7`. **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): R6-punct-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. 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