Who eats whom: predators, prey, scavengers and decomposers, sentence 12
Fungi are decomposers whose thin threads break down dead wood, and mushrooms are only their fruiting bodies; many wild mushrooms are deadly, so never touch or eat one you cannot name.
Who acts: Fungi, thin threads, mushrooms, many wild mushrooms, you · What happens: be, break down, not touch, eat, not name · To what, where: decomposers, dead wood, fruiting bodies, one
This is a sentence of the lesson «Who eats whom: predators, prey, scavengers and decomposers» 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 (Fungi, thin threads, mushrooms, many wild mushrooms), 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 | Fungi | fungi | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 decomposers | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 decomposers | cop |
| 3 | decomposers | decomposer | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 6 threads | nmod:poss |
| 5 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 threads | amod |
| 6 | threads | thread | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 break | nsubj |
| 7 | break | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 decomposers | acl:relcl |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 break | compound:prt |
| 9 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 wood | amod |
| 10 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 break | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 bodies | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 bodies | cc |
| 13 | mushrooms | mushroom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 bodies | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 bodies | cop |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 bodies | advmod |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 bodies | nmod:poss |
| 17 | fruiting | fruiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bodies | compound |
| 18 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 decomposers | conj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 deadly | punct |
| 20 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 mushrooms | amod |
| 21 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 mushrooms | amod |
| 22 | mushrooms | mushroom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 deadly | nsubj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 deadly | cop |
| 24 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 decomposers | parataxis |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 touch | punct |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 touch | advmod |
| 27 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 28 touch | advmod |
| 28 | touch | touch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 24 deadly | parataxis |
| 29 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 30 eat | cc |
| 30 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 28 touch | conj |
| 31 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 eat | obj |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 name | nsubj |
| 33 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 name | aux |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 name | advmod |
| 35 | name | name | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 one | acl:relcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 decomposers | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Fungi | decomposers and mushrooms's fruiting bodies | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | break down | present | thin threads | dead wood | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | mushrooms | mushrooms's fruiting bodies | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present | many wild mushrooms | deadly property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not touch | infinitive | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | eat | infinitive | one | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | |||||
| 7 | not name | can | you | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: 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:047-predators-prey-scavengers-decomposers.lesson:12.
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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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