Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our food, sentence 19
A barn owl family can eat thousands of mice and voles in a year, so farmers put up owl boxes.
Who acts: owl family, farmers · What happens: eat, put up · To what, where: thousands, owl boxes
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 (owl family, farmers), 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 | 4 family | det |
| 2 | barn | barn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 owl | compound |
| 3 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 family | compound |
| 4 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 eat | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 eat | aux |
| 6 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 eat | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 mice | case |
| 9 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 thousands | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 voles | cc |
| 11 | voles | vole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 mice | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 year | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 year | det |
| 14 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 eat | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 put | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 put | advmod |
| 17 | farmers | farmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 put | nsubj |
| 18 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 eat | parataxis |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 put | compound:prt |
| 20 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 boxes | compound |
| 21 | boxes | box | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 put | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 eat | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | can | a owl family | thousands of mice and voles | year | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Patient | |||
| 2 | put up | present | farmers | owl boxes | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent box=Goal |
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:19.
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): 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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