The big biology quiz, part 2: plants, the body and microbes, sentence 2
That is a living fungus at work, eating sugar and breathing out gas bubbles.
Who acts: That, living fungus · What happens: be, eat, breathe out · To what, where: living fungus, work, sugar, gas bubbles
This is a sentence of the lesson «The big biology quiz, part 2: plants, the body and microbes» 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 (That, living fungus), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 fungus | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fungus | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 fungus | det |
| 4 | living | living | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fungus | amod |
| 5 | fungus | fungus | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 work | case |
| 7 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fungus | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 eating | punct |
| 9 | eating | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 fungus | acl |
| 10 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 eating | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sugar | cc |
| 12 | breathing | breathe | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 eating | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 breathing | compound:prt |
| 14 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bubbles | compound |
| 15 | bubbles | bubble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 breathing | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fungus | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | a living fungus | work | tree rules | |||
| 2 | eat | gerund | a living fungus not said here | sugar | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sugar=Patient | ||||
| 3 | breathe out | gerund | a living fungus not said here | gas bubbles | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bubble=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:299-the-big-biology-quiz-part-2-plants-the-body-and-microbes.lesson:2.
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 ×2, R6-punct-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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