Food chains: sun, plants, plant-eaters, meat-eaters, sentence 10

Blue tits time their chicks to hatch when caterpillars are most common, and one family can eat thousands of caterpillars, often quoted as about 10,000.

Who acts: Blue tits, caterpillars, one family · What happens: time, hatch, be, eat, quote · To what, where: chicks, thousands

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 (Blue tits, caterpillars, one family), 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	Blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tits	amod
2	tits	tit	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 time	nsubj
3	time	time	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 chicks	nmod:poss
5	chicks	chick	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 time	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 hatch	mark
7	hatch	hatch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 time	xcomp
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 common	advmod
9	caterpillars	caterpillar	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 common	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 common	cop
11	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	12 common	advmod
12	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hatch	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 eat	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 eat	cc
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 family	nummod
16	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 eat	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 eat	aux
18	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 time	conj
19	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 eat	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 caterpillars	case
21	caterpillars	caterpillar	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 thousands	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 quoted	punct
23	often	often	ADV	_	24 quoted	advmod
24	quoted	quote	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 eat	advcl
25	as	as	ADP	_	27 10,000	case
26	about	about	ADV	_	27 10,000	advmod
27	10,000	10000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	24 quoted	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 time	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	time	present	Blue tits	tits's chicks		tree rules
2	hatch	to-infinitive	Blue tits not said here			vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient
3	is	present	caterpillars		common property	tree rules
4	eat	can	one family	thousands of caterpillars		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Patient
5	quote speech: other	participle	one family not said here		as 10,000; often property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:10.

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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