Chickens, goats and little creatures, sentence 3

Ladybirds, called ladybugs in North America, eat greenfly (aphids) that damage plants, and earthworms keep soil healthy, so gardeners are glad to see them.

Who acts: Ladybirds, greenfly, earthworms, gardeners · What happens: call, eat, damage, keep, be, see · To what, where: ladybugs, greenfly, plants, soil, gardeners · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Chickens, goats and little creatures» of the everyday 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 (Ladybirds, greenfly, earthworms, gardeners), 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	Ladybirds	ladybird	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 eat	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct
3	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Ladybirds	acl
4	ladybugs	ladybug	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 called	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 America	case
6	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 America	compound
7	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 ladybugs	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ladybirds	punct
9	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	greenfly	greenfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eat	obj
11	(	(	PUNCT	_	12 aphids	punct
12	aphids	aphid	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 greenfly	appos
13	)	)	PUNCT	_	12 aphids	punct
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 damage	nsubj
15	damage	damage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 greenfly	acl:relcl
16	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 damage	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 keep	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 keep	cc
19	earthworms	earthworm	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 keep	nsubj
20	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 eat	conj
21	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 keep	obj
22	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 keep	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 glad	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	27 glad	advmod
25	gardeners	gardener	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 glad	nsubj
26	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 glad	cop
27	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 healthy	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 see	mark
29	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 glad	advcl
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 see	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 eat	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	call	participle	Ladybirds not said here	ladybugs in North America		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	eat	present	Ladybirds	greenfly		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent greenfly=Patient
3	damage	present	greenfly	plants		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Patient
4	keep	present	earthworms	soil	healthy property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Theme
5	is	present	gardeners		glad property	tree rules
6	see	to-infinitive	gardeners not said here	gardeners = gardener		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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:everyday:068-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures.lesson:3.

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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