--- title: Over it all, on a warm July afternoon, the air fills with flying ant… — The garden in summer: flowers, aphids, ladybirds… · tree and pragmatics description: Over it all, on a warm July afternoon, the air fills with flying ants, and swifts scream over the rooftops catching them; these birds eat, drink and even sleep on the wing. Who acts: air, swifts, rooftops, birds. 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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 (air, swifts, rooftops, birds), 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:4 # text = Over it all, on a warm July afternoon, the air fills with flying ants, and swifts scream over the rooftops catching them; these birds eat, drink and even sleep on the wing. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Over over ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nmod 3 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 13 obl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 July July PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 afternoon afternoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 fills fill VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 flying fly VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 amod _ _ 16 ants ant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 swifts swift NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 scream scream VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 21 over over ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 rooftops rooftop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 24 catching catch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 acl _ _ 25 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 28 det _ _ 28 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 drink drink VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 even even ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 sleep sleep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=31:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 35 on on ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 wing wing NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fill** | present | the air | birth | | all | afternoon | with flying ants | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with ant=Instrument | | 2 | **fly** | gerund | | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **scream** *speech: express* | present | swifts | | | the rooftops | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over rooftop=Location | | 4 | **catch** | gerund | the rooftops *not said here* | ants *= ant* | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 5 | **eat** | present | this birds | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **drink** | present | this birds *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **sleep** | present | this birds *not said here* | | | the wing | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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: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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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