--- title: The termites live in the nest underground; air moves through the mou… — Animal builders: termite mounds, weaver birds an… · tree and pragmatics description: The termites live in the nest underground; air moves through the mound as the day warms and cools, and the Eastgate Centre in Zimbabwe was designed with cooling ideas from termite mounds. Who acts: termites, air, day. 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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, air, day), 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:6 # text = The termites live in the nest underground; air moves through the mound as the day warms and cools, and the Eastgate Centre in Zimbabwe was designed with cooling ideas from termite mounds. # 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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 termites termite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 nest nest NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 underground underground ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 moves move VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 11 through through ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 mound mound NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 as as SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 warms warm VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 cools cool VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 Eastgate Eastgate PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 Centre Centre PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 Zimbabwe Zimbabwe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 27 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 designed design VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 cooling cooling NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 ideas idea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 32 from from ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 termite termite NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 mounds mound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nmod _ _ 35 . . 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 | **live** | present | the termites | | | the nest | | underground *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in nest=Location | | 2 | **move** | present | air | | | the mound | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme through mound=Trajectory | | 3 | **warm** | present | the day | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **cool** | present | the day *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **design** | past · passive | | the Eastgate Centre in Zimbabwe | | | | with cooling ideas from termite mounds | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | 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:6`. **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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