--- title: Ants, bees and wasps live in big families run by a queen: ants follo… — Insects: six legs, three parts; ants, bees and w… · tree and pragmatics description: Ants, bees and wasps live in big families run by a queen: ants follow smell trails to a crumb on the patio, and a honeybee dances on the comb to tell her sisters where the flowers are. Who acts: Ants, honeybee, flowers. 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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 (Ants, honeybee, flowers), 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:3 # text = Ants, bees and wasps live in big families run by a queen: ants follow smell trails to a crumb on the patio, and a honeybee dances on the comb to tell her sisters where the flowers are. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Ants ant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 bees bee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 wasps wasp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 6 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 10 run run VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ _ 11 by by ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl:agent _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 15 ants ant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 follow follow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 17 smell smell NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 trails trail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 crumb crumb NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nmod 22 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 patio patio NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 honeybee honeybee NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 dances dance VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 30 on on ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 comb comb NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:nmod 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:acl 35 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 sisters sister NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ _ 37 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 34 ccomp _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 40 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | present | Ants and bees and wasps | | | big families | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in family=Location | | 2 | **run** | participle | | big families *not said here* | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **follow** | present | ants | smell trails | | a crumb on the patio | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent trail=Theme to crumb=Trajectory | | 4 | **dance** | present | a honeybee | | | the comb | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on comb=Location | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | a honeybee *not said here* | | honeybee's sisters | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient | | 6 | **is** | present | the flowers | | | | | where *property* | tree rules | 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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