The Amazon forest floor: leafcutters, army ants, tapirs, jaguars and the giant spider, sentence 0

Under the canopy the forest floor is dim, hot and damp, and so busy that a fallen tree can vanish in a few years as fungi, termites and bacteria eat it.

Who acts: forest floor, fallen tree, termites · What happens: be, fall, vanish, eat · To what, where: canopy, tree

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Amazon forest floor: leafcutters, army ants, tapirs, jaguars and the giant spider» 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 (forest floor, fallen tree, termites), 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	Under	under	ADP	_	3 canopy	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 canopy	det
3	canopy	canopy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dim	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 floor	det
5	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 floor	compound
6	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dim	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 dim	cop
8	dim	dim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hot	punct
10	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dim	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 damp	cc
12	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dim	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 busy	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 busy	cc
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 busy	advmod
16	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dim	conj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 vanish	mark
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 tree	det
19	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 tree	amod
20	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 vanish	nsubj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 vanish	aux
22	vanish	vanish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 busy	advcl
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 years	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 years	det
25	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 years	amod
26	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 vanish	obl
27	as	as	ADP	_	28 fungi	case
28	fungi	fungi	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 vanish	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 vanish	punct
30	termites	termite	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 eat	nsubj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 bacteria	cc
32	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 termites	conj
33	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 vanish	advcl
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 eat	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 dim	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the forest floor		the canopy		dim property	tree rules
2	be		the forest floor not said here					tree rules
3	be		the forest floor not said here					tree rules
4	be		the forest floor not said here					tree rules
5	fall	participle						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	vanish	can	a fallen tree			year	as fungi	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	eat	present	termites and bacteria	tree				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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:157-the-amazon-forest-floor.lesson:0.

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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