--- title: Small ants can carry many times their own weight, and weaver ants we… — Ants of the world: weaver ants, bullet ants, hon… · tree and pragmatics description: Small ants can carry many times their own weight, and weaver ants were photographed holding about 100 times their weight upside down. Who acts: Small ants. 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 --- [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/19/) [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/) / 19 # Ants of the world: weaver ants, bullet ants, honeypot ants and trap-jaw ants, sentence 19 Small ants can carry many times their own weight, and weaver ants were photographed holding about 100 times their weight upside down. **Who acts:** Small ants · **What happens:** carry, photograph, hold · **To what, where:** own weight, weaver ants, weight 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 (Small 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:19 # text = Small ants can carry many times their own weight, and weaver ants were photographed holding about 100 times their weight upside down. # 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 ×4 1 Small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 ants ant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 7 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 12 weaver weaver NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 ants ant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 photographed photograph VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 16 holding hold VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 17 about about ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 18 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 20 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nmod:poss 21 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:compound 22 upside upside NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 23 down down ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **carry** | can | Small ants | ants's own weight | | | time | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Theme | | 2 | **photograph** | past · passive | | weaver ants | | | | | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **hold** | gerund | | ants's weight | | | time | down *property* | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent weight=Theme upside=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:19`. **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 ×4. **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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