Food chains: sun, plants, plant-eaters, meat-eaters, sentence 15

People are omnivores, eating plants and animals, and growing plants for people uses much less land than feeding plants to animals and eating the animals.

Who acts: People, omnivores, growing, less land · What happens: be, eat, grow, use, feed · To what, where: omnivores, plants, less land, animals

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 (People, omnivores, growing, less land), 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	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 omnivores	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 omnivores	cop
3	omnivores	omnivore	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 plants	punct
5	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 omnivores	acl
6	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eating	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 animals	cc
8	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 plants	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 uses	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 uses	cc
11	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 uses	csubj
12	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 growing	obj
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 people	case
14	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 growing	obl
15	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 omnivores	conj
16	much	much	ADV	_	17 less	advmod
17	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 land	amod
18	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 uses	obj
19	than	than	SCONJ	_	20 feeding	mark
20	feeding	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 land	acl
21	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 feeding	obj
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 animals	case
23	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 feeding	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 eating	cc
25	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 feeding	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 animals	det
27	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 eating	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 omnivores	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	People	omnivores			tree rules
2	eat	gerund	omnivores not said here	plants and animals			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Patient
3	grow	gerund		plants		for people	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent plant=Product for people=Beneficiary
4	use	present	growing	less land			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Patient
5	feed	gerund	less land not said here	plants	animals		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent plant=Theme to animal=Recipient
6	eat	gerund	less land not said here	the animals			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=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:046-food-chains.lesson:15.

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): R6-punct-agree ×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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