--- title: Ants follow scent trails laid by other ants; a line of ants is made… — Ants of the world: weaver ants, bullet ants, hon… · tree and pragmatics description: Ants follow scent trails laid by other ants; a line of ants is made by feet and smell, not by a leader. Who acts: Ants, feet. 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 with its dependency tre --- [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/16/) [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/) / 16 # Ants of the world: weaver ants, bullet ants, honeypot ants and trap-jaw ants, sentence 16 Ants follow scent trails laid by other ants; a line of ants is made by feet and smell, not by a leader. **Who acts:** Ants, feet · **What happens:** follow, lay, make · **To what, where:** scent trails, line 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 (Ants, feet), 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:16 # text = Ants follow scent trails laid by other ants; a line of ants is made by feet and smell, not by a leader. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Ants ant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 follow follow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 scent scent NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 trails trail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 laid lay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ _ 6 by by ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 ants ant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 ants ant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 16 by by ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 smell smell NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 22 by by ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 leader leader NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **follow** | present | Ants | scent trails | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trail=Theme | | 2 | **lay** | participle | | scent trails *not said here* | | | | by other ants | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by ant=Destination | | 3 | **make** | present · passive | feet and smell | a line of ants | | | | by a leader | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product | 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:16`. **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): 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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