Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our food, sentence 4

A single handful of healthy soil holds more living things than there are people on Earth: bacteria, fungi, tiny animals and roots, all turning dead stuff into food for plants.

Who acts: single handful, people · What happens: hold, be, turn · To what, where: more living things

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 (single handful, people), 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	3 handful	det
2	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 handful	amod
3	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 holds	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 holds	case
5	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 soil	amod
6	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 handful	nmod
7	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 things	amod
9	living	live	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 things	amod
10	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 holds	obj
11	than	than	SCONJ	_	13 are	mark
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 are	expl
13	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 more	advcl
14	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 are	nsubj
15	on	on	ADP	_	16 Earth	case
16	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 people	nmod
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 bacteria	punct
18	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 things	appos
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 fungi	punct
20	fungi	fungi	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 bacteria	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 animals	punct
22	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 animals	amod
23	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 bacteria	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 roots	cc
25	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 animals	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 stuff	punct
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 stuff	det
28	turning	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 stuff	amod
29	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 stuff	amod
30	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 things	appos
31	into	into	ADP	_	32 food	case
32	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stuff	nmod
33	for	for	ADP	_	34 plants	case
34	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 stuff	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 holds	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hold	present	a single handful healthy soil	more living things		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
2	does	present	people on Earth		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	turn	gerund				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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:4.

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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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