--- title: Sociable weavers in the Kalahari build giant shared nests like hayst… — Animal builders: termite mounds, weaver birds an… · tree and pragmatics description: Sociable weavers in the Kalahari build giant shared nests like haystacks in trees, with many rooms and over 100 birds; the thick straw keeps them cool by day and warm on freezing desert nights, and a nest can last over 100 years. Who acts: Sociable weavers, thick straw, nest. 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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 (Sociable weavers, thick straw, nest), 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:10 # text = Sociable weavers in the Kalahari build giant shared nests like haystacks in trees, with many rooms and over 100 birds; the thick straw keeps them cool by day and warm on freezing desert nights, and a nest can last over 100 years. # 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 Sociable sociable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 weavers weaver NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Kalahari Kalahari PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 build build VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 shared share VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 amod _ _ 9 nests nest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 10 like like ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 haystacks haystack NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 rooms room NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 over over ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:advmod 20 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 straw straw NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 27 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 cool cool ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 xcomp _ _ 29 by by ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 conj _ _ 33 on on ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 freezing freezing ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 35 desert desert ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 nights night NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 nest nest NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 41 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 42 last last VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 conj _ _ 43 over over ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 45 nummod _ _ 45 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 obl _ _ 46 . . 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 | **build** | present | Sociable weavers in the Kalahari | giant shared nests and many rooms and 100 birds | | | | like haystacks in trees | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset nest=Product | | 2 | **share** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **keep** | present | the thick straw | Birds *= bird* | | | | cool *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 4 | **last** | can | a nest | | | | year | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=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:243-animal-builders-termite-mounds-weaver-birds-and-other-nest-makers.lesson:10`. **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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