--- title: Ants follow smell trails left by the first ant that found food, so w… — Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes… · tree and pragmatics description: Ants follow smell trails left by the first ant that found food, so wiping the trail with soapy water confuses them; ants are a nuisance but not dirty like cockroaches. Who acts: Ants, first ant, wiping. 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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, first ant, wiping), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:397-pests-mice-in-the-kitchen-cockroaches-clothes-moths-fleas-and-head-lice.lesson:19 # text = Ants follow smell trails left by the first ant that found food, so wiping the trail with soapy water confuses them; ants are a nuisance but not dirty like cockroaches. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 397-pests-mice-in-the-kitchen-cockroaches-clothes-moths-fleas-and-head-lice.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 ×4 1 Ants ant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 follow follow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 smell smell NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 trails trail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ _ 6 by by ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 9 amod _ _ 9 ant ant NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 12 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 wiping wipe VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 csubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advcl 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 trail trail NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nsubj 18 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 soapy soapy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nmod 21 confuses confuse VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:parataxis 22 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 ants ant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 25 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 nuisance nuisance NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 28 but but CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 30 dirty dirty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 conj _ _ 31 like like ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 cockroaches cockroach NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **follow** | present | Ants | smell trails | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trail=Theme | | 2 | **leave** | participle | | smell trails *not said here* | | | | by the first ant | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by ant=Location | | 3 | **find** | past | the first ant | food | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic | | 4 | **wipe** | gerund | | the trail | | | | with soapy water | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent trail=Source | | 5 | **confuse** | present | wiping | trails *= trail* | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 6 | **is a** | present | ants | a nuisance | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **not** **be** | | ants *not said here* | | | | | like cockroaches | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:397-pests-mice-in-the-kitchen-cockroaches-clothes-moths-fleas-and-head-lice.lesson:19`. **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 ×4. **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. 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