--- title: Each building solves a problem: keeping cool, keeping eggs away from… — Animal builders: termite mounds, weaver birds an… · tree and pragmatics description: Each building solves a problem: keeping cool, keeping eggs away from snakes, or winning a mate. Who acts: building. A sentence of the lesson «Animal builders: termite mounds, weaver birds and other nest makers» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatic --- [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/4/) [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/) / 4 # Animal builders: termite mounds, weaver birds and other nest makers, sentence 4 Each building solves a problem: keeping cool, keeping eggs away from snakes, or winning a mate. **Who acts:** building · **What happens:** solve, keep, win · **To what, where:** problem, eggs, mate 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 (building), 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:4 # text = Each building solves a problem: keeping cool, keeping eggs away from snakes, or winning a mate. # 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): no change 1 Each each DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 building building NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 solves solve VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 problem problem NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 7 keeping keep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 appos _ _ 8 cool cool ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 xcomp _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 keeping keep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ _ 11 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 12 away away ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 13 from from ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 snakes snake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 winning win VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **solve** | present | each building | a problem | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent problem=Topic | | 2 | **keep** | gerund | | | | | | cool *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **keep** | gerund | | eggs | | | | away *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme | | 4 | **win** | gerund | | a mate | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=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:243-animal-builders-termite-mounds-weaver-birds-and-other-nest-makers.lesson:4`. **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): no change. **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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