Recycling: giving materials a second life, sentence 11
Food scraps can be composted: microbes break them down into compost, which feeds plants.
Who acts: microbes, compost · What happens: compost, break down, feed · To what, where: Food scraps, scraps, compost, plants
This is a sentence of the lesson «Recycling: giving materials a second life» 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 (microbes, compost), 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 | Food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 scraps | compound |
| 2 | scraps | scrap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 composted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 composted | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 composted | aux:pass |
| 5 | composted | compost | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 break | punct |
| 7 | microbes | microbe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 break | nsubj |
| 8 | break | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 composted | parataxis |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 break | obj |
| 10 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 break | compound:prt |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 compost | case |
| 12 | compost | compost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 break | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 feeds | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 feeds | nsubj |
| 15 | feeds | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 compost | acl:relcl |
| 16 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 feeds | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 composted | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compost | can · passive | Food scraps | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | break down | present | microbes | scraps = scrap | into compost result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent they=Patient into compost=Result | |||
| 3 | feed | present | compost | plants | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=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:chemistry:032-recycling-second-life.lesson:11.
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): R7-rel-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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