--- title: Swallows and house martins build cup nests from mud mixed with spit,… — Animal builders: termite mounds, weaver birds an… · tree and pragmatics description: Swallows and house martins build cup nests from mud mixed with spit, and a house martin nest takes about 1,000 mud pellets. Who acts: Swallows, martin nest. A sentence of the lesson «Animal builders: termite mounds, weaver birds and other nest makers» of the biology course of Mova's primary school w --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/243-animal-builders-termite-mounds-weaver-birds-and-other-nest-makers/11/) [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/) / [Animal builders: termite mounds, weave…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/243-animal-builders-termite-mounds-weaver-birds-and-other-nest-makers/) / 11 # Animal builders: termite mounds, weaver birds and other nest makers, sentence 11 Swallows and house martins build cup nests from mud mixed with spit, and a house martin nest takes about 1,000 mud pellets. **Who acts:** Swallows, martin nest · **What happens:** build, mix, take · **To what, where:** cup nests, mud, 1,000 mud pellets This is a sentence of the lesson «Animal builders: termite mounds, weaver birds and other nest makers» 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 (Swallows, martin 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:11 # text = Swallows and house martins build cup nests from mud mixed with spit, and a house martin nest takes about 1,000 mud pellets. # 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 ×1 1 Swallows swallow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 3 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 martins martin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 5 build build VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 cup cup NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 nests nest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 mud mud NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod 10 mixed mix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 spit spit NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 16 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 martin martin NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 nest nest NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 20 about about ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 1,000 1000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 22 mud mud NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 pellets pellet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | Swallows and house martins | cup nests | | mud | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset nest=Product from mud=Material | | 2 | **mix** | participle | | mud *not said here* | | | | with spit | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with spit=Co-Patient | | 3 | **take** | present | a martin nest | 1,000 mud pellets | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pellet=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:11`. **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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