The vegetable patch: peas, potatoes, tomatoes and slugs, sentence 16

Worms, fungi and bacteria break kitchen scraps down into rich compost, the middle of the heap can get warm, and the compost feeds the patch next year.

Who acts: Worms, middle, compost · What happens: break down, get, feed · To what, where: kitchen scraps, rich compost, patch

This is a sentence of the lesson «The vegetable patch: peas, potatoes, tomatoes and slugs» 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 (Worms, middle, compost), 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	Worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 break	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 fungi	punct
3	fungi	fungi	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Worms	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 bacteria	cc
5	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Worms	conj
6	break	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 scraps	compound
8	scraps	scrap	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 break	obj
9	down	down	ADP	_	6 break	compound:prt
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 compost	case
11	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 compost	amod
12	compost	compost	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 break	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 compost	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 middle	det
15	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 get	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 heap	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 heap	det
18	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 middle	nmod
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 get	aux
20	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 break	conj
21	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 get	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 feeds	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 feeds	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 compost	det
25	compost	compost	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 feeds	nsubj
26	feeds	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 get	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 patch	det
28	patch	patch	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 feeds	obj
29	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 year	amod
30	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 feeds	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 break	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	break down	present	Worms and fungi and bacteria	kitchen scraps		into rich compost result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent scrap=Patient into compost=Result
2	get	can	the middle of the heap			warm property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	feed	present	the compost	the patch	year		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patch=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:338-the-vegetable-patch-peas-potatoes-tomatoes-and-slugs.lesson:16.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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