Food chains: sun, plants, plant-eaters, meat-eaters, sentence 5

In a food chain such as grass, rabbit, fox, the grass is the producer, the rabbit a plant-eater or herbivore, and the fox a meat-eater or carnivore; arrows point from food to eater.

Who acts: grass, arrows · What happens: be, point · To what, where: producer, food chain, eater, 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 (grass, arrows), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 chain	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 chain	det
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chain	compound
4	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 producer	obl
5	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	7 grass	case
6	as	as	ADP	_	5 such	fixed
7	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chain	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 rabbit	punct
9	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grass	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fox	punct
11	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grass	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 chain	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 grass	det
14	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 producer	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 producer	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 producer	det
17	producer	producer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 rabbit	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 rabbit	det
20	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 producer	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 eater	det
22	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 eater	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 plant	punct
24	eater	eater	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 producer	conj
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 herbivore	cc
26	herbivore	herbivore	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 eater	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 fox	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 fox	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 fox	det
30	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 rabbit	conj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 eater	det
32	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 eater	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 meat	punct
34	eater	eater	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fox	appos
35	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 carnivore	cc
36	carnivore	carnivore	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 eater	conj
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 point	punct
38	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 point	nsubj
39	point	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 producer	parataxis
40	from	from	ADP	_	41 food	case
41	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 point	obl
42	to	to	ADP	_	43 eater	case
43	eater	eater	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 point	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 producer	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	is a	present	the grass	the producer and the rabbit and the fox and a plant eater or herbivore		a food chain such grass and rabbit and fox			tree rules
2	point	present	arrows		eater	food			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to eater=Recipient

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:5.

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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