--- title: Whistling-thorn acacias give ants homes in swollen thorns and sweet… — The savanna: grass, trees and the great herds · tree and pragmatics description: Whistling-thorn acacias give ants homes in swollen thorns and sweet nectar, and the ants attack animals that nibble the tree, so both win; when a giraffe keeps browsing, acacia leaves also soon turn bitter. Who acts: thorn acacias, ants, animals, both. 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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 (thorn acacias, ants, animals, both), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:004-the-savanna.lesson:13 # text = Whistling-thorn acacias give ants homes in swollen thorns and sweet nectar, and the ants attack animals that nibble the tree, so both win; when a giraffe keeps browsing, acacia leaves also soon turn bitter. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 004-the-savanna.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Whistling whistling NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ _ 3 thorn thorn NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 acacias acacia NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 ants ant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 iobj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:compound 7 homes home NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 swollen swollen ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 thorns thorn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 nectar nectar NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 ants ant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 attack attack VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 19 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 21 nibble nibble VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 so so ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 26 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 27 nsubj _ _ 27 win win VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 32 advmod _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 giraffe giraffe NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 advcl _ _ 33 browsing browse VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 32 xcomp _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 35 acacia acacia NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj _ _ 37 also also ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:advmod 38 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 39 advmod _ _ 39 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 40 bitter bitter ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 xcomp _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | present | thorn acacias | homes | ants | swollen thorns and sweet nectar | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent ant=Recipient home=Theme | | 2 | **attack** | present | the ants | animals | | | | | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Patient | | 3 | **nibble** | present | animals | the tree | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient | | 4 | **win** | present | both | | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **keep** | present | a giraffe | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **browse** | gerund | a giraffe *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **turn** | present | acacia leaves | | | | | bitter, soon *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | 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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