Food chains and food webs, sentence 3
Decomposers, such as fungi, bacteria and worms, break down dead plants and animals and return their minerals to the soil for new plants.
Who acts: Decomposers · What happens: break down, return · To what, where: dead plants, minerals, soil
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 (Decomposers), 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 | Decomposers | decomposer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 break | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fungi | punct |
| 3 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 5 fungi | case |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 3 such | fixed |
| 5 | fungi | fungi | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Decomposers | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bacteria | punct |
| 7 | bacteria | bacterium | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fungi | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 worms | cc |
| 9 | worms | worm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Decomposers | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 break | punct |
| 11 | break | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 break | compound:prt |
| 13 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 plants | amod |
| 14 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 break | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 animals | cc |
| 16 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 plants | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 return | cc |
| 18 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 break | conj |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 minerals | nmod:poss |
| 20 | minerals | mineral | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 return | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 soil | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 soil | det |
| 23 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 return | obl |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 plants | case |
| 25 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 plants | amod |
| 26 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 return | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 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 | Decomposers such fungi and bacteria and worms | dead plants and animals | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Patient | ||||
| 2 | return | present | Decomposers such fungi and bacteria and worms not said here | animals's minerals | the soil | for new plants | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mineral=Theme to soil=Destination |
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: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): R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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