--- title: Some African termite mounds are several metres high, built by insect… — Animal builders: termite mounds, weaver birds an… · tree and pragmatics description: Some African termite mounds are several metres high, built by insects only a few millimetres long from soil, spit and droppings, with chimneys and tunnels for air. Who acts: African termite mounds, several metres. 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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 (African termite mounds, several metres), 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:5 # text = Some African termite mounds are several metres high, built by insects only a few millimetres long from soil, spit and droppings, with chimneys and tunnels for air. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 4 det _ _ 2 African African ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 termite termite NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 mounds mound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 8 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 11 by by ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl:agent _ _ 13 only only ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 millimetres millimetre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl:unmarked _ _ 17 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 16 advmod _ _ 18 from from ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 spit spit NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:appos 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 droppings dropping NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 chimneys chimney NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 tunnels tunnel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 29 for for ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | some African termite mounds | several metres | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **build** | participle | several metres *not said here* | a few millimetres | | soil and spit and droppings | | with chimneys for air and tunnels | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from soil=Material | 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:5`. **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): 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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