--- title: That is why a tiny ant can carry a crumb many times its weight, and… — Ants of the world: weaver ants, bullet ants, hon… · tree and pragmatics description: That is why a tiny ant can carry a crumb many times its weight, and why a giant ant in an old film would collapse. Who acts: That, tiny ant, giant ant. 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 scho --- [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/8/) [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/) / 8 # Ants of the world: weaver ants, bullet ants, honeypot ants and trap-jaw ants, sentence 8 That is why a tiny ant can carry a crumb many times its weight, and why a giant ant in an old film would collapse. **Who acts:** That, tiny ant, giant ant · **What happens:** be, carry, collapse · **To what, where:** crumb 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 (That, tiny ant, giant ant), 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:8 # text = That is why a tiny ant can carry a crumb many times its weight, and why a giant ant in an old film would collapse. # 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 1 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 why why ADV WRB PronType=Rel 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 ant ant NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl:relcl _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 crumb crumb NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl:unmarked _ _ 13 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 appos _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 conj _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 ant ant NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 film film NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 25 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 collapse collapse VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:acl:relcl 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **is** | present | That | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **carry** | can | a tiny ant | a crumb | | | time | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crumb=Theme | | 3 | **collapse** | would | a giant ant in a old film | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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:8`. **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. **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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