The Amazon forest floor: leafcutters, army ants, tapirs, jaguars and the giant spider, sentence 13

On the hot wet forest floor dead wood and leaves rot very fast, and most of the forest's goodness is held in living plants, not the thin soil.

Who acts: dead wood · What happens: rot, hold · To what, where: hot wet forest floor, most, living plants

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 (dead wood), 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	On	on	ADP	_	6 floor	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 floor	det
3	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 floor	amod
4	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 floor	amod
5	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 floor	compound
6	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rot	obl
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wood	amod
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rot	nsubj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 leaves	cc
10	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 wood	conj
11	rot	rot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 fast	advmod
13	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 rot	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 held	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 held	cc
16	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 held	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	21 goodness	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 forest	det
19	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 goodness	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 forest	case
21	goodness	goodness	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 most	nmod
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 held	aux:pass
23	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 rot	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 plants	case
25	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 plants	compound
26	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 held	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 soil	punct
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 soil	advmod
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 soil	det
30	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 soil	amod
31	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 plants	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 rot	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rot	present	dead wood and leaves			the hot wet forest floor		fast property	vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	hold	present · passive		most of the forest's goodness		living plants and the thin soil			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in plant=Location

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: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 ×2. 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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