--- title: A scout ant leaves a smell trail from food to the nest; others follo… — Insects: six legs, three parts; ants, bees and w… · tree and pragmatics description: A scout ant leaves a smell trail from food to the nest; others follow and strengthen it while the food lasts, then the trail fades. Who acts: scout ant, others, food, trail. 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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 (scout ant, others, food, trail), 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:8 # text = A scout ant leaves a smell trail from food to the nest; others follow and strengthen it while the food lasts, then the trail fades. # 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 ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 scout scout NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 ant ant NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 leaves leave VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 smell smell NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 trail trail NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 nest nest NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 follow follow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 strengthen strengthen VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 while while SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 lasts last VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 24 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 27 advmod _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:det 26 trail trail NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 fades fade VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **leave** | present | a scout ant | a smell trail | | food to the nest | | | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme trail=Source from food=Destination | | 2 | **follow** | present | others | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **strengthen** | present | others *not said here* | insect | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 4 | **last** | present | the food | | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **fade** | present | the trail | | | | then | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:036-insects-six-legs-ants-bees-and-wasps.lesson:8`. **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, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Insects: six legs, three parts; ants,…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/36-insects-six-legs-ants-bees-and-wasps/7/) - next →: [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/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/36-insects-six-legs-ants-bees-and-wasps/)