--- title: Magnetic termites in Australia build thin, flat mounds pointing nort… — Animal builders: termite mounds, weaver birds an… · tree and pragmatics description: Magnetic termites in Australia build thin, flat mounds pointing north and south: the wide sides catch the weak morning and evening sun, and the thin edge faces the hot midday sun. Who acts: Magnetic termites, thin flat mounds, wide sides, thin edge. 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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 (Magnetic termites, thin flat mounds, wide sides, thin edge), 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:7 # text = Magnetic termites in Australia build thin, flat mounds pointing north and south: the wide sides catch the weak morning and evening sun, and the thin edge faces the hot midday sun. # 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 Magnetic magnetic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 termites termite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 build build VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 mounds mound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 10 pointing point VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 acl _ _ 11 north north ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 south south ADV RB _ 11 conj _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 sides side NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 catch catch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 weak weak ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl:unmarked _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 edge edge NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 faces face VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 32 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 33 midday midday NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 sun. sun PROPN NNP Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **build** | present | Magnetic termites in Australia | thin flat mounds | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mound=Product | | 2 | **point** | gerund | thin flat mounds *not said here* | | | | | north *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **catch** | present | the wide sides | | | | morning | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **face** | present | the thin edge | | the hot midday sun. | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sun=Destination | 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. 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