Food chains: sun, plants, plant-eaters, meat-eaters, sentence 11
A real fox eats rabbits, mice, birds, worms, beetles, fruit and leftovers, so food chains join into a tangled food web, which lets animals switch food when one runs short.
Who acts: real fox, food chains, tangled food web, animals, one · What happens: eat, join, let, switch, run · To what, where: rabbits, food
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 (real fox, food chains, tangled food web, animals), 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 fox | det |
| 2 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fox | amod |
| 3 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eats | nsubj |
| 4 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 eats | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 mice | punct |
| 7 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rabbits | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 birds | punct |
| 9 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rabbits | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 worms | punct |
| 11 | worms | worm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rabbits | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 beetles | punct |
| 13 | beetles | beetle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rabbits | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fruit | punct |
| 15 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rabbits | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 leftovers | cc |
| 17 | leftovers | leftover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rabbits | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 join | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 join | advmod |
| 20 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 chains | compound |
| 21 | chains | chain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 join | nsubj |
| 22 | join | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 eats | conj |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 web | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 web | det |
| 25 | tangled | tangled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 web | amod |
| 26 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 web | compound |
| 27 | web | web | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 join | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 lets | punct |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 lets | nsubj |
| 30 | lets | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 web | acl:relcl |
| 31 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 switch | nsubj |
| 32 | switch | switch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 lets | xcomp |
| 33 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 switch | obj |
| 34 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 36 runs | advmod |
| 35 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 runs | nsubj |
| 36 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 switch | advcl |
| 37 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 runs | xcomp |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 eats | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present | a real fox | rabbits and mice and birds and worms and beetles and fruit and leftovers | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Patient | ||||
| 2 | join | present | food chains | into a tangled food web | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient into web=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | let | present | a tangled food web | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | switch | infinitive | animals | food | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient | ||||
| 5 | run | present | one | short property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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: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): R3-conj-first ×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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