Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our food, sentence 17

Compost is old food and plants broken down by microbes, fungi and worms into rich soil, and it gets warm in the middle as the microbes work.

Who acts: Compost, microbes · What happens: be, break down, get, work · To what, where: old food, rich soil, middle

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 (Compost, microbes), 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	Compost	compost	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 food	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 food	cop
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 food	amod
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 plants	cc
6	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 food	conj
7	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 food	acl
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 broken	compound:prt
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 microbes	case
10	microbes	microbe	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 broken	obl:agent
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fungi	punct
12	fungi	fungi	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 microbes	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 worms	cc
14	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 microbes	conj
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 soil	case
16	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 soil	amod
17	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 broken	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 gets	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 gets	cc
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 gets	nsubj
21	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 food	conj
22	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 gets	xcomp
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 middle	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 middle	det
25	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gets	obl
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 work	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 microbes	det
28	microbes	microbe	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 work	nsubj
29	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 gets	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 food	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Compost	old food and plants			tree rules
2	break down	participle		old food and plants not said here		into rich soil result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into soil=Result
3	get	present	Compost		the middle	warm property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	work	present	the microbes				vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:17.

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, R8-pos-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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