--- title: Scientists put tiny stilts on Saharan desert ants and they walked to… — Ants of the world: weaver ants, bullet ants, hon… · tree and pragmatics description: Scientists put tiny stilts on Saharan desert ants and they walked too far past their nest, while ants with shortened legs stopped short; the ants measure distance by something like counting steps and use the sun for direction. Who acts: Scientists, 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 (Scientists, 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:17 # text = Scientists put tiny stilts on Saharan desert ants and they walked too far past their nest, while ants with shortened legs stopped short; the ants measure distance by something like counting steps and use the sun for direction. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 stilts stilt NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 Saharan Saharan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 7 desert desert NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 ants ant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 12 too too ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 11 advmod _ _ 14 past past ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 nest nest NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obl 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 while while SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 19 ants ant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 shortened shorten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 amod _ _ 22 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ _ 23 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 xcomp _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 ants ant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 measure measure VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 29 distance distance NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 30 by by ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 28 obl _ _ 32 like like SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 33 counting count VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 31 acl _ _ 34 steps step NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=33:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 for for ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 direction direction NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 41 . . 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 | **put** | past | Scientists | tiny stilts | | Saharan desert ants | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent stilt=Theme on ant=Destination | | 2 | **walk** | past | ants *= ant* | | | ants's nest | | far *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past nest=Trajectory | | 3 | **shorten** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **stop** | past | ants with shortened legs | | | | | short *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 5 | **measure** | present | the ants | distance | | | | by something | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme distance=Value | | 6 | **count** | gerund | | steps | | | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Theme | | 7 | **use** | present | | the sun | | | | for direction | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent sun=Theme for direction=Eventuality | 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:17`. **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, R8-pos-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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