Food chains: sun, plants, plant-eaters, meat-eaters, sentence 1

A food chain shows who eats whom: grass, then rabbit, then fox, with arrows pointing from the food to the eater, the way the energy goes.

Who acts: food chain, arrows, energy · What happens: show, eat, point, go · To what, where: way, eater, food · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Food chains: sun, plants, plant-eaters, meat-eaters» 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 (food chain, arrows, energy), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 chain	det
2	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chain	compound
3	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shows	nsubj
4	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 eats	nsubj
6	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 shows	ccomp
7	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 eats	obj
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 grass	punct
9	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 whom	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 rabbit	punct
11	then	then	ADV	_	12 rabbit	advmod
12	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grass	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fox	punct
14	then	then	ADV	_	15 fox	advmod
15	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grass	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 pointing	punct
17	with	with	SCONJ	_	19 pointing	mark
18	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 pointing	nsubj
19	pointing	point	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 shows	advcl
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 food	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 food	det
22	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pointing	obl
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 eater	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 eater	det
25	eater	eater	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pointing	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 way	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 way	det
28	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pointing	obl:unmarked
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 energy	det
30	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 goes	nsubj
31	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 way	acl:relcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shows	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	show	present	a food chain				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	eat	present					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Patient
3	point	gerund	arrows	the way	the eater	the food	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to eater=Recipient
4	go	present	the energy	the way not said here			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=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:046-food-chains.lesson:1.

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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