--- title: On warm, damp days winged young queens and males leave many ant nest… — The garden in summer: flowers, aphids, ladybirds… · tree and pragmatics description: On warm, damp days winged young queens and males leave many ant nests at once; gulls and swifts feast on them, and these flights happen over several weeks, not just one day. Who acts: winged young queens, gulls, flights. 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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 (winged young queens, gulls, flights), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:334-the-garden-in-summer-flowers-aphids-ladybirds-and-flying-ant-day.lesson:10 # text = On warm, damp days winged young queens and males leave many ant nests at once; gulls and swifts feast on them, and these flights happen over several weeks, not just one day. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 334-the-garden-in-summer-flowers-aphids-ladybirds-and-flying-ant-day.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 On on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 damp damp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 6 winged wing ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 queens queen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 males male NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 11 leave leave VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 13 ant ant NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 14 nests nest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 11 obl _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 gulls gull NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 swifts swift NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 21 feast feast VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 22 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 27 det _ _ 27 flights flight NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 happen happen VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 29 over over ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 34 just just ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 35 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 36 nummod _ _ 36 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl:unmarked _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6: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 | **leave** | present | winged young queens and males | many ant nests | | | day | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent nest=Theme at once=Location | | 2 | **feast** | present | gulls and swifts | | | | | on queens *= queen* | vn dine-39.5 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on they=Patient | | 3 | **happen** | present | this flights | | | | day; week | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: 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:334-the-garden-in-summer-flowers-aphids-ladybirds-and-flying-ant-day.lesson:10`. **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, R7-rel-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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