--- title: The termites do not live at the top: they live in the nest below, an… — Animal builders: termite mounds, weaver birds an… · tree and pragmatics description: The termites do not live at the top: they live in the nest below, and the mound works like a pair of lungs and an air conditioner, letting stale air out and fresh air in. Who acts: termites, mound. 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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, mound), 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:2 # text = The termites do not live at the top: they live in the nest below, and the mound works like a pair of lungs and an air conditioner, letting stale air out and fresh air in. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 termites termite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advcl 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 nest nest NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 below below ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 mound mound NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 21 like like ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 pair pair NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 lungs lung NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 conditioner conditioner NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 letting let VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advcl 32 stale stale ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 out out ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 38 in in ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **live** | present · do-support | the termites | | | the top | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at top=Location | | 2 | **live** | present | termites *= termite* | | | the nest | | below *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in nest=Location | | 3 | **work** | present | the mound | | | | | like a pair of lungs and a air conditioner | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **let out** | gerund | the mound *not said here* | stale air | | | | out *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=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:2`. **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, 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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