Food chains: sun, plants, plant-eaters, meat-eaters, sentence 7

A pond food chain can be tiny green algae, water fleas, sticklebacks, then a heron or a pike; a jar of pond water can hold thousands of living things.

Who acts: pond food chain, jar · What happens: be, hold · To what, where: tiny green algae, 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 (pond food chain, jar), 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	4 chain	det
2	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chain	compound
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chain	compound
4	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 algae	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 algae	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 algae	cop
7	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 algae	amod
8	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 algae	amod
9	algae	alga	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 hold	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fleas	punct
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fleas	compound
12	fleas	flea	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 algae	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sticklebacks	punct
14	sticklebacks	stickleback	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 algae	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 heron	punct
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 heron	advmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 heron	det
18	heron	heron	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 algae	conj
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 pike	cc
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 pike	det
21	pike	pike	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 heron	conj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 jar	punct
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 jar	det
24	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hold	nsubj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 water	case
26	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 water	compound
27	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 jar	nmod
28	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 hold	aux
29	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
30	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 hold	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 things	case
32	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 things	amod
33	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 thousands	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 algae	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	can	a pond food chain	tiny green algae and water fleas and sticklebacks and a heron or a pike					tree rules
2	hold	can	a jar of pond water	thousands of living things					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=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:7.

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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