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title: Many termites grow fungus gardens on chewed wood and plants inside t… — Animal builders: termite mounds, weaver birds an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Many termites grow fungus gardens on chewed wood and plants inside the mound, and the fungus helps to break down the wood; a termite queen can be as big as a finger and lay thousands of eggs a day. Who acts: Many termites, fungus, termite queen. A sentence of the lesson «Animal builders: termite mou
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# Animal builders: termite mounds, weaver birds and other nest makers, sentence 8

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Many termites grow fungus gardens on chewed wood and plants inside the mound, and the fungus helps to break down the wood; a termite queen can be as big as a finger and lay thousands of eggs a day.

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**Who acts:** Many termites, fungus, termite queen · **What happens:** grow, chew, help, break down, be, lay · **To what, where:** fungus gardens, chewed wood, wood, thousands

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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 (Many termites, fungus, termite queen), 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:8
# text = Many termites grow fungus gardens on chewed wood and plants inside the mound, and the fungus helps to break down the wood; a termite queen can be as big as a finger and lay thousands of eggs a day.
# 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	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	termites	termite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	fungus	fungus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	chewed	chew	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	mound	mound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	fungus	fungus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	down	down	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	termite	termite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
28	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	cop	_	_
30	as	as	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	conj	_	_
37	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl:unmarked	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present | Many termites | fungus gardens |  | chewed wood and plants inside the mound |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location garden=Theme |
| 2 | **chew** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **help** | present | the fungus |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **break down** | to-infinitive | the fungus *not said here* | the wood |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | can | a termite queen |  |  |  |  | as a finger; big *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **lay** | infinitive | a termite queen *not said here* | thousands of eggs |  |  | day |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Result |

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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.

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**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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