Food chains and food webs, sentence 13

The arrows in a food chain point from the thing eaten to the thing that eats it.

Who acts: arrows, thing · What happens: point, eat · To what, where: thing

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 (arrows, thing), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 arrows	det
2	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 point	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 chain	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 chain	det
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chain	compound
6	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 arrows	nmod
7	point	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 thing	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 thing	det
10	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 point	obl
11	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 thing	acl
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 thing	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 thing	det
14	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 eaten	obl
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 eats	nsubj
16	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 thing	acl:relcl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 eats	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 arrows	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	point	present	the arrows in a food chain		the thing		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	eat	participle		the thing not said here		to the thing	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	eat	present	the thing	thing			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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:13.

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): no change. 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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