--- title: Wasps build nests of paper by chewing wood and mixing it with spit,… — Insects: six legs, three parts; ants, bees and w… · tree and pragmatics description: Wasps build nests of paper by chewing wood and mixing it with spit, in six-sided cells, which fit together with no gaps and use the least material. Who acts: Wasps, six sided cells. 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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 (Wasps, six sided cells), 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:14 # text = Wasps build nests of paper by chewing wood and mixing it with spit, in six-sided cells, which fit together with no gaps and use the least material. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Wasps wasp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 build build VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 nests nest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 by by SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 chewing chew VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 8 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 mixing mix VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 spit spit NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 16 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ _ 18 sided sided ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 cells cell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 22 fit fit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 together together ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 26 det _ _ 26 gaps gap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 least least ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 31 amod _ _ 31 material material NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **build** | present | Wasps | nests of paper | | six sided cells | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset nest=Product | | 2 | **chew** | gerund | Wasps *not said here* | wood | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Patient | | 3 | **mix** | gerund | Wasps *not said here* | wood | | | | with spit | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient with spit=Co-Patient | | 4 | **fit together** | present | six sided cells | | | | | with no gaps; together *property* | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **use** | present | six sided cells *not said here* | the least material | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent material=Patient | 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. 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