Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our food, sentence 5
Farmers have other helpers too: ladybirds that eat aphids and barn owls that hunt mice.
Who acts: Farmers, ladybirds, barn owls · What happens: have, eat, hunt · To what, where: other helpers, aphids, mice
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 (Farmers, ladybirds, barn owls), 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 | Farmers | farmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 helpers | amod |
| 4 | helpers | helper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | obj |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 2 have | advmod |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 eat | punct |
| 7 | ladybirds | ladybird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 helpers | appos |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 eat | nsubj |
| 9 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 ladybirds | acl:relcl |
| 10 | aphids | aphid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 eat | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 owls | cc |
| 12 | barn | barn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 owls | compound |
| 13 | owls | owl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ladybirds | conj |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 hunt | nsubj |
| 15 | hunt | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 owls | acl:relcl |
| 16 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 hunt | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Farmers | other helpers | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent helper=Patient | ||||
| 2 | eat | present | ladybirds and barn owls | aphids | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aphid=Patient | ||||
| 3 | hunt | present | barn owls | mice | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=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:5.
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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