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title: Animals build with whatever they have: wasps chew wood into paper, m… — More builders: caddis cases, paper wasps, moles,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Animals build with whatever they have: wasps chew wood into paper, moles push soil up into molehills, and ants pile pine needles into a warm dome. Who acts: Animals, wasps, moles, ants. A sentence of the lesson «More builders: caddis cases, paper wasps, moles, apes' beds and sand circles» of the bio
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# More builders: caddis cases, paper wasps, moles, apes' beds and sand circles, sentence 1

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Animals build with whatever they have: wasps chew wood into paper, moles push soil up into molehills, and ants pile pine needles into a warm dome.

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**Who acts:** Animals, wasps, moles, ants · **What happens:** build, have, chew, push up, pile · **To what, where:** wood, paper, soil, molehills, pine needles, warm dome

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This is a sentence of the lesson «More builders: caddis cases, paper wasps, moles, apes' beds and sand circles» 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 (Animals, wasps, moles, ants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:245-more-builders-caddis-cases-paper-wasps-moles-apes-beds-and-sand-circles.lesson:1
# text = Animals build with whatever they have: wasps chew wood into paper, moles push soil up into molehills, and ants pile pine needles into a warm dome.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 245-more-builders-caddis-cases-paper-wasps-moles-apes-beds-and-sand-circles.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1
1	Animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	build	build	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	obl	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	wasps	wasp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	chew	chew	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
10	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	moles	mole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	push	push	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
16	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	up	up	PART	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	molehills	molehill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=15:punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	ants	ant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	pile	pile	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=15:conj
24	pine	pine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	needles	needle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	dome	dome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **build** | present | Animals |  |  |  |  | with whatever | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent with whatever=Source |
| 2 | **have** | present | Animals *= animal* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **chew** | present | wasps | wood |  | paper |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Patient |
| 4 | **push up** | present | moles | soil |  | molehills |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent soil=Theme into molehill=Destination |
| 5 | **pile** | present | ants | pine needles |  | a warm dome |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent needle=Theme into dome=Destination |

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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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×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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