--- title: Then come the hunters: a seven-spot ladybird and its spiky grey larv… — The garden in summer: flowers, aphids, ladybirds… · tree and pragmatics description: Then come the hunters: a seven-spot ladybird and its spiky grey larva munch through them, while ants walk up the stem to stroke the aphids and drink their sweet honeydew, guarding them from ladybirds in return. Who acts: spot ladybird, ants. 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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 (spot ladybird, ants), 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:3 # text = Then come the hunters: a seven-spot ladybird and its spiky grey larva munch through them, while ants walk up the stem to stroke the aphids and drink their sweet honeydew, guarding them from ladybirds in return. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 2 advmod _ _ 2 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 hunters hunter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 7 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ _ 9 spot spot NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 ladybird ladybird NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 12 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 13 spiky spiky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 15 larva larva NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 16 munch munch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 17 through through ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 while while SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 21 ants ant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 walk walk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 23 up up ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 stem stem NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 stroke stroke VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 advcl _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 aphids aphid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 drink drink VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:conj 32 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 33 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 honeydew honeydew NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 guarding guard VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ _ 37 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 from from ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 ladybirds ladybird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 return return NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 42 . . 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 | **come** | present | | the hunters | | | then | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hunter=Theme | | 2 | **munch** | present | a spot ladybird and birth's spiky grey larva | | | | | through hunters *= hunter* | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **walk up** | present | ants | the stem | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stem=Trajectory | | 4 | **stroke** | to-infinitive | ants *not said here* | the aphids | | | | | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aphid=Experiencer | | 5 | **drink** | present | ants *not said here* | aphids's sweet honeydew | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honeydew=Patient | | 6 | **guard** | gerund | ants *not said here* | aphids *= aphid* | | | | in return; from ladybirds | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary from ladybird=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:3`. **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 ×2. **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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