Why living things die, and the circle of life in nature, sentence 9

A food chain shows who eats whom, starting from the sun and plants; when animals die, decomposers return them to the soil, so the chain is really a circle.

Who acts: food chain, animals, decomposers, chain · What happens: show, eat, start, die, return, be · To what, where: sun, plants, soil, circle · 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 (food chain, animals, decomposers, chain), 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 chain	det
2	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chain	compound
3	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shows	nsubj
4	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 eats	nsubj
6	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 shows	ccomp
7	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 eats	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 starting	punct
9	starting	start	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 shows	acl
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 sun	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sun	det
12	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 starting	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 plants	cc
14	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sun	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 die	punct
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 die	advmod
17	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 die	nsubj
18	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 return	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 shows	punct
20	decomposers	decomposer	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 return	nsubj
21	return	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 shows	parataxis
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 return	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 soil	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 soil	det
25	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 return	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 circle	punct
27	so	so	ADV	_	33 circle	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 chain	det
29	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 circle	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 circle	cop
31	really	really	ADV	_	33 circle	advmod
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 circle	det
33	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 soil	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shows	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	show	present	a food chain			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	eat	present				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Patient
3	start	gerund			the sun and plants	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	die	present	animals			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	return	present	decomposers	plants = plant	the soil and a circle	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to soil=Destination
6	is a	present	the chain	a circle		tree rules

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:9.

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): R5-strong ×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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