--- title: Aphids give out a sweet drop called honeydew, ants drink it, and in… — The garden in summer: flowers, aphids, ladybirds… · tree and pragmatics description: Aphids give out a sweet drop called honeydew, ants drink it, and in return ants guard the aphids from ladybirds, which people call «milking» the aphids. Who acts: Aphids, sweet drop, ants, people. 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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 (Aphids, sweet drop, ants, people), 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:9 # text = Aphids give out a sweet drop called honeydew, ants drink it, and in return ants guard the aphids from ladybirds, which people call «milking» the aphids. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Aphids aphid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 out out ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 drop drop NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 7 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 8 honeydew honeydew NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 xcomp _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 ants ant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 drink drink VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:advcl 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 return return NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:compound 17 ants ant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:obl 18 guard guard VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 aphids aphid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 from from ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 ladybirds ladybird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:nmod 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 obj _ _ 25 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 27 « « PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 28 milking milk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 xcomp _ _ 29 » » PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 aphids aphid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 32 . . 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 | **give out** | present | Aphids | a sweet drop | | | | | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent drop=Theme | | 2 | **call** | participle | a sweet drop *not said here* | honeydew | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **drink** | present | ants | drop | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 4 | **guard** | present | ants | return | | | | from ladybirds | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent aphid=Beneficiary from ladybird=Theme | | 5 | **call** *speech: assert* | present | people | the aphids | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **milk** *in a quote* | gerund | people *not said here* | the aphids | | | | | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aphid=Source | 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:9`. **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 ×2, 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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