Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our food, sentence 3

Earthworms pull dead leaves down, eat them with soil and leave rich worm casts, while their tunnels let air and rain sink in.

Who acts: Earthworms, tunnels, air · What happens: pull down, eat, leave, let, sink in · To what, where: dead leaves, leaves, rich worm casts

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, air), 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 pull	nsubj
2	pull	pull	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 pull	obj
5	down	down	ADP	_	2 pull	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 eat	punct
7	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 pull	conj
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 eat	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 soil	case
10	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eat	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 leave	cc
12	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 pull	conj
13	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 casts	amod
14	worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 casts	compound
15	casts	cast	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 leave	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 leave	punct
17	while	while	SCONJ	_	20 let	mark
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 tunnels	nmod:poss
19	tunnels	tunnel	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 let	nsubj
20	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 leave	advcl
21	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sink	nsubj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 rain	cc
23	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 air	conj
24	sink	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 let	xcomp
25	in	in	ADV	_	24 sink	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 pull	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pull down	present	Earthworms	dead leaves		vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme
2	eat	present	Earthworms not said here	leaves = leaf	with soil	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	leave	present	Earthworms not said here	rich worm casts		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cast=Theme
4	let	present	Earthworms's tunnels			tree rules
5	sink in	infinitive	air and rain			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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: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): no change. 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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