--- title: In Africa, termites a few millimetres long build mounds taller than… — Animal builders: termite mounds, weaver birds an… · tree and pragmatics description: In Africa, termites a few millimetres long build mounds taller than a grown man out of soil, spit and droppings; for a termite that is like people building a tower kilometres high. Who acts: termites, termite. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (termites, termite), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:243-animal-builders-termite-mounds-weaver-birds-and-other-nest-makers.lesson:1 # text = In Africa, termites a few millimetres long build mounds taller than a grown man out of soil, spit and droppings; for a termite that is like people building a tower kilometres high. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 243-animal-builders-termite-mounds-weaver-birds-and-other-nest-makers.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:obl 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 termites termite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 millimetres millimetre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod:unmarked _ _ 8 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 9 build build VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 mounds mound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 taller tall ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 9 xcomp _ _ 12 than than ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 amod _ _ 15 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 out out ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 spit spit NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:appos 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 droppings dropping NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 termite termite NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 27 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 29 like like SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 30 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 31 building build VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 acl _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 tower tower NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:obj 35 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 xcomp _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 9 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 | **build** | present | termites a few millimetres | mounds | | Africa | | out soil and spit and droppings; tall *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mound=Product | | 2 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **build** | present · progressive | a termite | | | | | high *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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:243-animal-builders-termite-mounds-weaver-birds-and-other-nest-makers.lesson:1`. **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 ×2, 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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