Why living things die, and the circle of life in nature, sentence 8
Worms, fungi and bacteria break down dead plants and animals into soil; this is called decomposition.
Who acts: Worms · What happens: break down, call · To what, where: dead plants, soil, this · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Why living things die, and the circle of life in nature» of the religion ethics 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 (Worms), 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 | Worms | worm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 break | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 fungi | punct |
| 3 | fungi | fungi | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Worms | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 bacteria | cc |
| 5 | bacteria | bacteria | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Worms | conj |
| 6 | break | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 break | compound:prt |
| 8 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 plants | amod |
| 9 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 break | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 animals | cc |
| 11 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 plants | conj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 soil | case |
| 13 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 break | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 called | punct |
| 15 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 called | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 called | aux:pass |
| 17 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 break | parataxis |
| 18 | decomposition | decomposition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 called | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 break | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break down | present | Worms and fungi and bacteria | dead plants and animals | into soil result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent plant=Patient into soil=Result | |||
| 2 | call | present · passive | this | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=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:religion-ethics:053-why-living-things-die-and-the-circle-of-life.lesson:8.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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