The Lion King: real lions, prides and the circle of life, sentence 15

The circle of life matches real science: energy passes from grass to antelopes to lions, and decomposers return dead bodies to the soil.

Who acts: circle, energy, decomposers · What happens: match, pass, return · To what, where: real science, antelopes, grass, dead bodies, soil

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Lion King: real lions, prides and the circle of life» 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 (circle, energy, decomposers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 circle	det
2	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 matches	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 life	case
4	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 circle	nmod
5	matches	match	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 science	amod
7	science	science	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 matches	obj
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 matches	punct
9	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 passes	nsubj
10	passes	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 matches	parataxis
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 grass	case
12	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 passes	obl
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 antelopes	case
14	antelopes	antelope	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 passes	obl
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 lions	case
16	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 antelopes	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 return	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 return	cc
19	decomposers	decomposer	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 return	nsubj
20	return	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 passes	conj
21	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 bodies	amod
22	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 return	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 soil	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 soil	det
25	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 return	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 matches	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	match	present	the circle of life	real science			vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent science=Patient
2	pass	present	energy		antelopes to lions	grass	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from grass=Initial_Location to antelope=Destination
3	return	present	decomposers	dead bodies		the soil	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent body=Theme to soil=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, 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:124-the-lion-king-real-lions.lesson:15.

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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