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title: Honeypot ants have workers called repletes whose bellies stretch ful… — Ants of the world: weaver ants, bullet ants, hon… · tree and pragmatics
description: Honeypot ants have workers called repletes whose bellies stretch full of sweet liquid; they hang from the nest ceiling as living food stores, and Aboriginal people in Australia have long dug them up as a sweet treat. Who acts: Honeypot ants, workers, bellies, ants. A sentence of the lesson «Ants of 
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# Ants of the world: weaver ants, bullet ants, honeypot ants and trap-jaw ants, sentence 12

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Honeypot ants have workers called repletes whose bellies stretch full of sweet liquid; they hang from the nest ceiling as living food stores, and Aboriginal people in Australia have long dug them up as a sweet treat.

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**Who acts:** Honeypot ants, workers, bellies, ants, Aboriginal people · **What happens:** have, call, stretch, hang, live, dig up · **To what, where:** workers, repletes, food stores, nest ceiling, ants · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Ants of the world: weaver ants, bullet ants, honeypot ants and trap-jaw ants» 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 (Honeypot ants, workers, bellies, ants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:304-ants-of-the-world-weaver-ants-bullet-ants-honeypot-ants-and-trap-jaw-ants.lesson:12
# text = Honeypot ants have workers called repletes whose bellies stretch full of sweet liquid; they hang from the nest ceiling as living food stores, and Aboriginal people in Australia have long dug them up as a sweet treat.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 304-ants-of-the-world-weaver-ants-bullet-ants-honeypot-ants-and-trap-jaw-ants.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Honeypot	honeypot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	ants	ant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	repletes	replete	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:obj
7	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	bellies	belly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	stretch	stretch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	liquid	liquid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	hang	hang	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
23	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	stores	store	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
27	Aboriginal	aboriginal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
28	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	long	long	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	dug	dig	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
34	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	up	up	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
36	as	as	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	treat	treat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
40	.	.	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 | **have** | present | Honeypot ants | workers |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worker=Patient |
| 2 | **call** | participle | workers *not said here* | repletes |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **stretch** | present | bellies |  |  |  |  | full *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **hang** | present | ants *= ant* | food stores |  | the nest ceiling |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **live** | gerund | ants *= ant* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **dig up** | present · perfect | Aboriginal people in Australia | ants *= ant* |  |  |  | as a sweet treat; long *property* | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent they=Result as treat=Attribute |

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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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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