--- title: Leafcutter ants do not eat the leaves they carry: they chew them to… — Insects: six legs, three parts; ants, bees and w… · tree and pragmatics description: Leafcutter ants do not eat the leaves they carry: they chew them to grow a fungus garden underground and eat the fungus. Who acts: Leafcutter ants, Ants. 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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 (Leafcutter ants, Ants), 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:9 # text = Leafcutter ants do not eat the leaves they carry: they chew them to grow a fungus garden underground and eat the fungus. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Leafcutter leafcutter ADJ JJR Degree=Pos 2 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:amod 2 ants ant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 chew chew VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advcl 13 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 fungus fungus NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 underground underground ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 fungus fungus NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **eat** | present · do-support | Leafcutter ants | the leaves | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient | | 2 | **carry** | present | Ants *= ant* | the leaves *not said here* | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme | | 3 | **chew** | present | Ants *= ant* | leaves *= leaf* | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **grow** | to-infinitive | Ants *= ant* *not said here* | a fungus garden | | | | underground *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location garden=Theme | | 5 | **eat** | infinitive | Ants *= ant* *not said here* | the fungus | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fungus=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: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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Insects: six legs, three parts; ants,…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/36-insects-six-legs-ants-bees-and-wasps/8/) - next →: [Insects: six legs, three parts; ants,…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/36-insects-six-legs-ants-bees-and-wasps/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/36-insects-six-legs-ants-bees-and-wasps/)