--- title: Many ants can lift 10 to 50 times their own weight, because small an… — Insects: six legs, three parts; ants, bees and w… · tree and pragmatics description: Many ants can lift 10 to 50 times their own weight, because small animals are strong for their size; an ant blown up to the size of a person could hardly hold up its own weight. Who acts: Many ants, small animals, ant. 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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 (Many ants, small animals, ant), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:036-insects-six-legs-ants-bees-and-wasps.lesson:10 # text = Many ants can lift 10 to 50 times their own weight, because small animals are strong for their size; an ant blown up to the size of a person could hardly hold up its own weight. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 036-insects-six-legs-ants-bees-and-wasps.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 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 ants ant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 lift lift VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 50 50 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nmod _ _ 8 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 9 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 because because SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 14 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 16 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 advcl _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 22 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 ant ant NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 24 blown blow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 acl _ _ 25 up up ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 32 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 35 up up ADP RP _ 34 compound:prt _ _ 36 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 37 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lift** | can | Many ants | Ants's own weight | | | time | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | small animals | | | | | for Ants's size; strong *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **blow up** | participle | | a ant *not said here* | the size of a person | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to size=Recipient | | 4 | **hold up** | could | a ant | person's own weight | | | | hardly *property* | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot weight=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:036-insects-six-legs-ants-bees-and-wasps.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): 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: [Insects: six legs, three parts; ants,…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/36-insects-six-legs-ants-bees-and-wasps/9/) - next →: [Insects: six legs, three parts; ants,…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/36-insects-six-legs-ants-bees-and-wasps/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/36-insects-six-legs-ants-bees-and-wasps/)