--- title: Dead ants give off a smell that tells others to carry them out, whic… — Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant f… · tree and pragmatics description: Dead ants give off a smell that tells others to carry them out, which keeps germs away from the nest; scientists dabbed that smell on living ants and their sisters carried them out too. Who acts: Dead ants, smell, others, scientists. 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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 (Dead ants, smell, others, scientists), 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:15 # text = Dead ants give off a smell that tells others to carry them out, which keeps germs away from the nest; scientists dabbed that smell on living ants and their sisters carried them out too. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 ants ant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 off off ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 smell smell NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obl 7 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 12 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 out out ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 16 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 17 germs germ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 18 away away ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 19 from from ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 nest nest NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 23 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 dabbed dab VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 25 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 26 det _ _ 26 smell smell NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 on on ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 living live VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 29 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:amod 29 ants ant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 sisters sister NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 34 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 out out ADP RP _ 33 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 36 too too ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 37 . . 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 | **give off** | present | Dead ants | a smell | | | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source smell=Theme | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | a smell | others | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent other=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **carry out** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | others *not said here* | ants *= ant* | | | | | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality | | 4 | **keep** | present | a smell | germs | | | | away *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme | | 5 | **dab** | past | scientists | that smell | | living ants | | | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent smell=Theme on ant=Destination | | 6 | **live** | gerund | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **carry out** | past | ants's sisters | ants *= ant* | | | | | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:330-unusual-pets-stick-insects-giant-snails-ant-farms-and-hermit-crabs.lesson:15`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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