Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our food, sentence 14

Earthworms eat dead leaves and soil and leave rich casts, their tunnels let air and water into the soil, and Charles Darwin wrote a whole book about worms.

Who acts: Earthworms, tunnels, Charles · What happens: eat, leave, let, write · To what, where: dead leaves, rich casts, air, soil, whole book

This is a sentence of the lesson «Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our food» 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 (Earthworms, tunnels, Charles), 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	Earthworms	earthworm	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 leaves	amod
4	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 soil	cc
6	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leaves	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 leave	cc
8	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 eat	conj
9	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 casts	amod
10	casts	cast	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 leave	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 let	punct
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 tunnels	nmod:poss
13	tunnels	tunnel	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 let	nsubj
14	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 leave	parataxis
15	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 let	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 water	cc
17	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 air	conj
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 soil	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 soil	det
20	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 let	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 wrote	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 wrote	cc
23	Charles	Charles	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 wrote	nsubj
24	Darwin	Darwin	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Charles	flat
25	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 eat	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 book	det
27	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 book	amod
28	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 wrote	obj
29	about	about	ADP	_	30 worms	case
30	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 book	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 eat	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Earthworms	dead leaves and soil			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient
2	leave	present	Earthworms not said here	rich casts			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cast=Theme
3	let	present	Earthworms's tunnels	air and water	the soil		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme
4	write	past	Charles	a whole book		about worms	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent book=Recipient about worm=Topic

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:291-bees-worms-and-soil-the-hidden-helpers-of-our-food.lesson:14.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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