Food chains and food webs, sentence 1

Every food chain starts with a producer, a plant or alga that makes its own food from sunlight; the animals that eat are consumers.

Who acts: food chain, plant, animals · What happens: start, make, eat, be · To what, where: own food, sunlight, consumers

This is a sentence of the lesson «Food chains and food webs» of the world 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, plant, animals), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 chain	det
2	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chain	compound
3	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 starts	nsubj
4	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 producer	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 producer	det
7	producer	producer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 starts	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 plant	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 plant	det
10	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 producer	appos
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 alga	cc
12	alga	alga	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 plant	conj
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 makes	nsubj
14	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 plant	acl:relcl
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 food	nmod:poss
16	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 food	amod
17	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 makes	obj
18	from	from	ADP	_	19 sunlight	case
19	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 makes	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 consumers	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 animals	det
22	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 consumers	nsubj
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 eat	nsubj
24	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 animals	acl:relcl
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 consumers	cop
26	consumers	consumer	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 starts	parataxis
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 starts	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	start	present	every food chain			with a producer	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with producer=Subeventuality
2	make	present	a plant or alga	chain's own food	sunlight		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset food=Product from sunlight=Material
3	eat	present	the animals				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	the animals	consumers			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:world:026-food-chains-and-webs.lesson:1.

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 ×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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