--- title: Weaver ants of Asia, Africa and Australia build nests from living le… — Ants of the world: weaver ants, bullet ants, hon… · tree and pragmatics description: Weaver ants of Asia, Africa and Australia build nests from living leaves: workers pull the leaf edges together while others hold larvae that spin silk to glue them. Who acts: Weaver ants, workers, others, larvae. 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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 (Weaver ants, workers, others, larvae), 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:9 # text = Weaver ants of Asia, Africa and Australia build nests from living leaves: workers pull the leaf edges together while others hold larvae that spin silk to glue them. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Weaver weaver NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 ants ant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Asia Asia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct 6 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=6:conj 9 build build VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 nests nest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 from from ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 living living ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod 14 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 15 workers worker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 pull pull VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 leaf leaf NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 edges edge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 20 together together ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 21 while while SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 hold hold VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 24 larvae larva NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 25 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 26 spin spin VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 27 silk silk NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 glue glue VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:xcomp 30 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 9 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 | **build** | present | Weaver ants of Asia and Africa and Australia | nests | | living leaves | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset nest=Product from leaf=Material | | 2 | **pull** | present | workers | the leaf edges | | | | together *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent edge=Theme | | 3 | **hold** | present | others | larvae | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent larva=Theme | | 4 | **spin** | present | larvae | silk | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent silk=Theme | | 5 | **glue** | to-infinitive | larvae *not said here* | ants *= ant* | | | | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:9`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-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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