Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our food, sentence 16

A handful of healthy soil holds more living things than there are people on Earth, and it takes hundreds of years to make a few centimetres of soil.

Who acts: handful, it · What happens: hold, take, make · To what, where: more living things, hundreds, few centimetres

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 (handful, it), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 handful	det
2	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 holds	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 soil	case
4	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 soil	amod
5	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 handful	nmod
6	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 things	amod
8	living	live	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 things	amod
9	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 holds	obj
10	than	than	SCONJ	_	12 are	mark
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 are	expl
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 things	acl:relcl
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 are	nsubj
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 Earth	case
15	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 people	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 takes	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 takes	cc
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 takes	nsubj
19	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 holds	conj
20	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 takes	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 years	case
22	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 hundreds	nmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 make	mark
24	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 hundreds	acl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 centimetres	det
26	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 centimetres	amod
27	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 make	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 soil	case
29	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 centimetres	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 holds	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	hold	present	a handful of healthy soil	more living things	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
2	take	present	it	hundreds of years	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=Theme
3	make	to-infinitive		a few centimetres of soil	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset centimetre=Product

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:16.

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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