The big biology quiz, part 3: dinosaurs, evolution, conservation and food, sentence 4

Wolves change how elk graze, bees turn flowers into fruit, and the worms and microbes in the soil feed the plants that feed us.

Who acts: Wolves, elk, bees, worms, plants · What happens: change, graze, turn, feed · To what, where: flowers, fruit, plants, us

This is a sentence of the lesson «The big biology quiz, part 3: dinosaurs, evolution, conservation and 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 (Wolves, elk, bees, worms), 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	Wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 change	nsubj
2	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 graze	advmod
4	elk	elk	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 graze	nsubj
5	graze	graze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 change	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 turn	punct
7	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 turn	nsubj
8	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 change	conj
9	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 turn	obj
10	into	into	ADP	_	11 fruit	case
11	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turn	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 feed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 feed	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 worms	det
15	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 feed	nsubj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 microbes	cc
17	microbes	microbe	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 worms	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 soil	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 soil	det
20	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 worms	nmod
21	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 change	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 plants	det
23	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 feed	obj
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 feed	nsubj
25	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 plants	acl:relcl
26	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 feed	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 change	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	change	present	Wolves				tree rules
2	graze	present	elk				vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	turn	present	bees	flowers		fruit	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent flower=Theme into fruit=Trajectory
4	feed	present	the worms in the soil and microbes	the plants			vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Recipient
5	feed	present	the plants		us		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient

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:300-the-big-biology-quiz-part-3-dinosaurs-evolution-conservation-and-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 ×1, R8-pos-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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