Spiders and other minibeasts under logs and stones, sentence 3

Most of these minibeasts eat dead leaves and rotting wood, so they are the garden's recycling team, turning old plants back into soil.

Who acts: Most, leaves · What happens: eat, rot, be, turn back · To what, where: dead leaves, recycling team, old plants, soil

This is a sentence of the lesson «Spiders and other minibeasts under logs and stones» 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 (Most, leaves), 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	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 eat	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 minibeasts	case
3	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 minibeasts	det
4	minibeasts	minibeast	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Most	nmod
5	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 leaves	amod
7	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eat	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 rotting	cc
9	rotting	rot	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 eat	conj
10	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 leaves	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 team	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	19 team	advmod
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 team	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 team	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 garden	det
16	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 team	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 garden	case
18	recycling	recycling	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 team	compound
19	team	team	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eat	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 turning	punct
21	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 eat	conj
22	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 plants	amod
23	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 turning	obj
24	back	back	ADV	_	21 turning	advmod
25	into	into	ADP	_	26 soil	case
26	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 turning	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 eat	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	eat	present	Most of this minibeasts	dead leaves and wood		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient
2	rot	gerund	Most of this minibeasts not said here			vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	is a	present	leaves = leaf	the garden's recycling team		tree rules
4	turn back	gerund	Most of this minibeasts not said here	old plants	soil	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=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, 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:220-spiders-and-other-minibeasts-under-logs-and-stones.lesson:3.

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 ×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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