--- title: Trap-jaw ants lock their jaws open and snap them shut in one of the… — Ants of the world: weaver ants, bullet ants, hon… · tree and pragmatics description: Trap-jaw ants lock their jaws open and snap them shut in one of the fastest movements in the animal world, catching quick prey like springtails, and they can snap against the ground to fling themselves away from danger. Who acts: jaw ants, ants. 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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 (jaw ants, 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:13 # text = Trap-jaw ants lock their jaws open and snap them shut in one of the fastest movements in the animal world, catching quick prey like springtails, and they can snap against the ground to fling themselves away from danger. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Trap trap NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ _ 3 jaw jaw NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 ants ant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 lock lock VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 jaws jaw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 snap snap VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 11 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 shut shut ADP RP _ 10 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:compound:prt 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 obl _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 fastest fast ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 18 amod _ _ 18 movements movement NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 catching catch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 25 quick quick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 prey prey NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 like like ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 springtails springtail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 snap snap VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:conj 34 against against ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 fling fling VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 advcl _ _ 39 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 38 obj _ _ 40 away away ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 41 from from ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lock** | present | jaw ants | ants's jaws | | | | open *property* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jaw=Patient | | 2 | **snap** | infinitive | jaw ants *not said here* | ants *= ant* | | | | in one of the fastest movements in the animal world | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Patient in one=Topic | | 3 | **catch** | gerund | jaw ants *not said here* | quick prey | | | | like springtails | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prey=Theme | | 4 | **snap** | can | ants *= ant* | | | the ground | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against ground=Location | | 5 | **fling away** | to-infinitive | ants *= ant* *not said here* | ants *= ant* | | danger | | away *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme from danger=Initial\_Location | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:304-ants-of-the-world-weaver-ants-bullet-ants-honeypot-ants-and-trap-jaw-ants.lesson:13`. **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, 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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