Browning apples, rotting and mould, sentence 18
A compost heap gets warm because microbes break down the scraps and release energy as heat.
Who acts: compost heap, microbes · What happens: get, break down, release · To what, where: scraps, energy
This is a sentence of the lesson «Browning apples, rotting and mould» of the chemistry 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 (compost heap, microbes), 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 heap | det |
| 2 | compost | compost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heap | compound |
| 3 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gets | nsubj |
| 4 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 gets | xcomp |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 break | mark |
| 7 | microbes | microbe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 break | nsubj |
| 8 | break | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 gets | advcl |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 break | compound:prt |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 scraps | det |
| 11 | scraps | scrap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 break | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 release | cc |
| 13 | release | release | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 break | conj |
| 14 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 release | obj |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 heat | case |
| 16 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 release | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gets | 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 | get | present | a compost heap | warm property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | break down | present | microbes | the scraps | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scrap=Patient | ||||
| 3 | release | present | microbes not said here | energy | as heat | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer energy=Source |
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:chemistry:023-browning-apples-rotting-and-mould.lesson:18.
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): 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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