--- title: Wasps chew wood fibres with spit into paper and build nests of six-s… — More builders: caddis cases, paper wasps, moles,… · tree and pragmatics description: Wasps chew wood fibres with spit into paper and build nests of six-sided cells; the paper layers trap air and keep the nest warm, and wasps have done this for millions of years, while people learned to make paper from wood only in the 1800s. Who acts: Wasps, paper layers, people. 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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 (Wasps, paper layers, people), 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:6 # text = Wasps chew wood fibres with spit into paper and build nests of six-sided cells; the paper layers trap air and keep the nest warm, and wasps have done this for millions of years, while people learned to make paper from wood only in the 1800s. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Wasps wasp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 chew chew VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 fibres fibre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 spit spit NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 into into ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 build build VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 11 nests nest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 13 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nummod 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ _ 15 sided sided ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 cells cell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 layers layer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 trap trap VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 22 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 nest nest NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 xcomp _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 wasps wasp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 31 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 conj _ _ 33 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 32 obj _ _ 34 for for ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nmod _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 while while SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 40 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nsubj _ _ 41 learned learn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 advcl _ _ 42 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 43 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 xcomp _ _ 44 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ _ 45 from from ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ _ 47 only only ADV RB _ 50 advmod _ _ 48 in in ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 1800s 1800 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 43 obl _ _ 51 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **chew** | present | Wasps | wood fibres | | paper | | with spit | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fibre=Patient | | 2 | **build** | present | Wasps *not said here* | nests of sided cells | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset nest=Product | | 3 | **trap** | present | the paper layers | air | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Patient | | 4 | **keep** | present | the paper layers *not said here* | the nest | | | | warm *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Theme | | 5 | **do** | present · perfect | wasps | this | | | | for millions of years | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | | 6 | **learn** | past | people | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **make** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | paper | | wood | | in the 1800s | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset paper=Product from wood=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. 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