--- title: Tiny leafcutter workers ride on the leaf pieces to guard the carrier… — The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantula… · tree and pragmatics description: Tiny leafcutter workers ride on the leaf pieces to guard the carriers from flies, and a big nest can hold millions of ants with a queen that lives over ten years. Who acts: Tiny leafcutter workers, big nest, queen. 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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 (Tiny leafcutter workers, big nest, queen), 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:6 # text = Tiny leafcutter workers ride on the leaf pieces to guard the carriers from flies, and a big nest can hold millions of ants with a queen that lives over ten years. # 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): no change 1 Tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 leafcutter leafcutter NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 workers worker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 ride ride VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 leaf leaf NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 guard guard VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 carriers carrier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 from from ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 flies fly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 nest nest NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 22 millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 ants ant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 28 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 29 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 30 over over ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 32 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl:unmarked _ _ 33 . . 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 | **ride** | present | Tiny leafcutter workers | | | the leaf pieces | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **guard** | to-infinitive | Tiny leafcutter workers *not said here* | the carriers | | | | from flies | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent carrier=Beneficiary from fly=Theme | | 3 | **hold** | can | a big nest | millions of ants | | | | with a queen | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent million=Theme | | 4 | **live** | present | a queen | | | | year | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:097-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions.lesson:6`. **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): no change. **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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