--- title: Weaver ants sew leaves into nests, holding their own larvae like glu… — Ants of the world: weaver ants, bullet ants, hon… · tree and pragmatics description: Weaver ants sew leaves into nests, holding their own larvae like glue sticks that spin silk. Who acts: Weaver ants, glue sticks. 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 --- [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/2/) [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/) / 2 # Ants of the world: weaver ants, bullet ants, honeypot ants and trap-jaw ants, sentence 2 Weaver ants sew leaves into nests, holding their own larvae like glue sticks that spin silk. **Who acts:** Weaver ants, glue sticks · **What happens:** sew, hold, spin · **To what, where:** leaves, nests, own larvae, silk 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 (Weaver ants, glue sticks), 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:2 # text = Weaver ants sew leaves into nests, holding their own larvae like glue sticks that spin silk. # 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): no change 1 Weaver weaver NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 ants ant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 sew sew VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 into into ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 nests nest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 8 holding hold VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 advcl _ _ 9 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 larvae larva NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 12 like like ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 glue glue NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 sticks stick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 15 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 16 spin spin VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 17 silk silk NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 18 . . 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 | **sew** | present | Weaver ants | leaves | | nests | | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent leaf=Material into nest=Product | | 2 | **hold** | gerund | Weaver ants *not said here* | ants's own larvae | | | | like glue sticks | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent larva=Theme | | 3 | **spin** | present | glue sticks | silk | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent silk=Theme | 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:2`. **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): no change. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Ants of the world: weaver ants, bullet…, 1](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/1/) - next →: [Ants of the world: weaver ants, bullet…, 3](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/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](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/)