--- title: A 2022 study estimated about 20 quadrillion ants on Earth, a 2 with… — Ants of the world: weaver ants, bullet ants, hon… · tree and pragmatics description: A 2022 study estimated about 20 quadrillion ants on Earth, a 2 with 16 zeros after it; all of them together still weigh less than all the people on Earth. Who acts: 2022 study, all. A sentence of the lesson «Ants of the world: weaver ants, bullet ants, honeypot ants and trap-jaw ants» of the biology --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/304-ants-of-the-world-weaver-ants-bullet-ants-honeypot-ants-and-trap-jaw-ants/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Ants of the world: weaver ants, bullet…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/304-ants-of-the-world-weaver-ants-bullet-ants-honeypot-ants-and-trap-jaw-ants/) / 15 # Ants of the world: weaver ants, bullet ants, honeypot ants and trap-jaw ants, sentence 15 A 2022 study estimated about 20 quadrillion ants on Earth, a 2 with 16 zeros after it; all of them together still weigh less than all the people on Earth. **Who acts:** 2022 study, all · **What happens:** estimate, weigh · **To what, where:** 20 quadrillion ants, Earth, less 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 (2022 study, all), 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:15 # text = A 2022 study estimated about 20 quadrillion ants on Earth, a 2 with 16 zeros after it; all of them together still weigh less than all the people on Earth. # 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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 2022 2022 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 study study NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 estimated estimate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 5 about about ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 7 quadrillion quadrillion NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 ants ant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:appos 14 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 16 16 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 zeros zero NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 17 after after ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nmod _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 20 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 25 nsubj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nmod _ _ 23 together together ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 24 still still ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 weigh weigh VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 26 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 25 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 27 than than ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 30 det:predet _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 31 on on ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **estimate** | participle | a 2022 study *not said here* | 20 quadrillion ants | | Earth | | | vn estimate-34.2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent ant=Value | | 2 | **weigh** | present | all | less | | | still | than all people on Earth; together *property* | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme less=Value | 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:15`. **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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