--- title: Dung beetles roll balls of dung to eat or lay eggs in, clearing and… — The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantula… · tree and pragmatics description: Dung beetles roll balls of dung to eat or lay eggs in, clearing and burying dung in farmers' fields, and some can steer at night by the Milky Way. Who acts: Dung beetles, some. A sentence of the lesson «The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantulas and scorpions» of the biology course of Mova's --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/97-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The insect house: ants, stick insects,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/97-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions/) / 13 # The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantulas and scorpions, sentence 13 Dung beetles roll balls of dung to eat or lay eggs in, clearing and burying dung in farmers' fields, and some can steer at night by the Milky Way. **Who acts:** Dung beetles, some · **What happens:** roll, eat, lay, clear, bury, steer · **To what, where:** balls, eggs, dung, fields This is a sentence of the lesson «The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantulas and scorpions» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dung beetles, some), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:097-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions.lesson:13 # text = Dung beetles roll balls of dung to eat or lay eggs in, clearing and burying dung in farmers' fields, and some can steer at night by the Milky Way. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 097-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Dung dung NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 beetles beetle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nsubj 3 roll roll VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 balls ball NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 dung dung NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 acl _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 lay lay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 11 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 10 advmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 clearing clear VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 burying bury VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 conj _ _ 17 dung dung NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 farmers farmer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod:poss _ _ 20 ' 's PART POS _ 19 case _ _ 21 fields field NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 26 nsubj _ _ 25 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 steer steer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 27 at at ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 29 by by ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 Milky milky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 Way Way PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **roll** | present | Dung beetles | balls of dung | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme | | 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive | Dung beetles *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **lay** | infinitive | Dung beetles *not said here* | eggs | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result | | 4 | **clear** | gerund | Dung beetles *not said here* | | | | | | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source | | 5 | **bury** | gerund | Dung beetles *not said here* | dung | | farmers's fields | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dung=Theme in field=Destination | | 6 | **steer** | can | some | | | | night | by the Milky Way | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by way=Destination | 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:097-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions.lesson:13`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×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. 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