Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our food, sentence 6
When people forget these helpers, things go wrong, as in the 1930s Dust Bowl, when bare ploughed soil simply blew away.
Who acts: people, things, bare ploughed soil · What happens: forget, go, plough, blow away · To what, where: helpers
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 (people, things, bare ploughed soil), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 forget | advmod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 forget | nsubj |
| 3 | forget | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 go | advcl |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 helpers | det |
| 5 | helpers | helper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 forget | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 go | nsubj |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 go | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 1930s | punct |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 1930s | case |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 1930s | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 1930s | det |
| 14 | 1930s | 1930 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 8 go | obl |
| 15 | Dust | Dust | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Bowl | compound |
| 16 | Bowl | Bowl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 1930s | appos |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 soil | punct |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 blew | advmod |
| 19 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 soil | amod |
| 20 | ploughed | plough | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 soil | amod |
| 21 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 blew | nsubj |
| 22 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 23 blew | advmod |
| 23 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 Bowl | acl:relcl |
| 24 | away | away | ADV | _ | 23 blew | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | present | people | this helpers | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | present | things | as the 1930s; wrong property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | plough | participle | vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | blow away | past | bare ploughed soil | away, simply property | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: 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:6.
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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