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A sentence of the lesson «Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant farms and hermit crabs» of the biology course of Mova's prima --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/330-unusual-pets-stick-insects-giant-snails-ant-farms-and-hermit-crabs/14/) [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/) / [Unusual pets: stick insects, giant sna…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/330-unusual-pets-stick-insects-giant-snails-ant-farms-and-hermit-crabs/) / 14 # Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant farms and hermit crabs, sentence 14 An ant colony needs a queen to lay eggs or it slowly dies out, and ants from shops without a queen last only a few months. **Who acts:** ant colony, queen, colony, ants · **What happens:** need, lay, die out, last · **To what, where:** queen, eggs This is a sentence of the lesson «Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant farms and hermit crabs» 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 (ant colony, queen, colony, ants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:330-unusual-pets-stick-insects-giant-snails-ant-farms-and-hermit-crabs.lesson:14 # text = An ant colony needs a queen to lay eggs or it slowly dies out, and ants from shops without a queen last only a few months. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 330-unusual-pets-stick-insects-giant-snails-ant-farms-and-hermit-crabs.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 ×1 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 ant ant NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 colony colony NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 lay lay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 9 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 dies die VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 14 out out ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 17 ants ant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 18 from from ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 shops shop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 20 without without ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 23 last last VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 24 only only ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl:unmarked _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **need** | present | a ant colony | a queen | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **lay** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a queen *not said here* | eggs | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result | | 3 | **die out** | present | colony | | | | | slowly *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **last** | present | ants from shops without a queen | | | | month | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=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:330-unusual-pets-stick-insects-giant-snails-ant-farms-and-hermit-crabs.lesson:14`. **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 ×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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