Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfish, woodlice, moths and cockroaches, sentence 11

Woodlice eat their own poo to recycle copper their bodies need and clean up the garden by eating dead leaves and wood.

Who acts: Woodlice, bodies · What happens: eat, recycle, need, clean up · To what, where: own poo, copper, garden, dead leaves

This is a sentence of the lesson «Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfish, woodlice, moths and cockroaches» 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 (Woodlice, bodies), 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	Woodlice	woodlice	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 poo	nmod:poss
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 poo	amod
5	poo	poo	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eat	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 recycle	mark
7	recycle	recycle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 eat	advcl
8	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 recycle	obj
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 bodies	nmod:poss
10	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 need	nsubj
11	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 copper	acl:relcl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 clean	cc
13	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 eat	conj
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 clean	compound:prt
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 garden	det
16	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 clean	obj
17	by	by	SCONJ	_	18 eating	mark
18	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 clean	advcl
19	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 leaves	amod
20	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 eating	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 wood	cc
22	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 leaves	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 eat	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	eat	present	Woodlice	woodlice's own poo	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poo=Patient
2	recycle	to-infinitive	Woodlice not said here	copper	tree rules
3	need	present	woodlice's bodies	copper not said here	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot copper=Theme
4	clean up	infinitive	Woodlice not said here	the garden	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent garden=Patient
5	eat	gerund	Woodlice not said here	dead leaves and wood	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=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:370-minibeasts-in-the-house-house-spiders-silverfish-woodlice-moths-and-cockroaches.lesson:11.

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. 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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