--- title: Matabele ants of Africa raid termites, and when an ant is hurt the o… — Ants of the world: weaver ants, bullet ants, hon… · tree and pragmatics description: Matabele ants of Africa raid termites, and when an ant is hurt the others carry it home and lick its wounds, which helps it survive, scientists reported from 2017. Who acts: Matabele ants, others, sun, scientists. 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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 (Matabele ants, others, sun, scientists), 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:18 # text = Matabele ants of Africa raid termites, and when an ant is hurt the others carry it home and lick its wounds, which helps it survive, scientists reported from 2017. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Matabele matabele NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 ants ant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 raid raid VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 termites termite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 9 when when SCONJ WRB _ 13 mark _ _ 10 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 ant ant NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 advcl _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 home home ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 lick lick VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 21 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 wounds wound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 25 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 survive survive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 reported report VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 31 from from ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 2017 2017 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 30 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 30 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **raid** | present | Matabele ants of Africa | termites | | | | | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent termite=Location | | 2 | **hurt** | present · passive | | a ant | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **carry** | present | the others | sun | | | | home *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **lick** | present | the others *not said here* | sun's wounds | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent wound=Source | | 5 | **help** | present | | sun | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 6 | **survive** | infinitive | sun *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **report** | past | scientists | | | 2017 | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **wound** | | sun | | | | | | nom wound «state transitive»: poss=agent | 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:18`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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