--- title: Ants carry their dead to a far corner to keep germs away. — Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant f… · tree and pragmatics description: Ants carry their dead to a far corner to keep germs away. Who acts: Ants. 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 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [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/4/) [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/) / 4 # Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant farms and hermit crabs, sentence 4 Ants carry their dead to a far corner to keep germs away. **Who acts:** Ants · **What happens:** carry, keep away · **To what, where:** dead, far corner, germs 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 (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:4 # text = Ants carry their dead to a far corner to keep germs away. # 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 1 Ants ant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 obj _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 far far ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 corner corner NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:acl 11 germs germ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 12 away away ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 13 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **carry** | present | Ants | ants's dead | | a far corner | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dead=Theme to corner=Destination | | 2 | **keep away** | to-infinitive | Ants *not said here* | germs | | | | away *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=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:4`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Unusual pets: stick insects, giant sna…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/330-unusual-pets-stick-insects-giant-snails-ant-farms-and-hermit-crabs/3/) - next →: [Unusual pets: stick insects, giant sna…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/330-unusual-pets-stick-insects-giant-snails-ant-farms-and-hermit-crabs/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/330-unusual-pets-stick-insects-giant-snails-ant-farms-and-hermit-crabs/)