Food chains and food webs, sentence 4

In nature most animals eat more than one thing and are eaten by more than one thing, so the chains join into a food web, like a net.

Who acts: most animals, one thing, chains · What happens: eat, join · To what, where: one thing, nature

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 (most animals, one thing, chains), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 nature	case
2	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eat	obl
3	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 animals	amod
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eat	nsubj
5	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	8 one	advmod
7	than	than	ADP	_	6 more	fixed
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 thing	nummod
9	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eat	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 eaten	cc
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 eaten	aux:pass
12	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 eat	conj
13	by	by	ADP	_	17 thing	case
14	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	17 thing	advmod
15	than	than	ADP	_	14 more	fixed
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 thing	nummod
17	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 eaten	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 join	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	22 join	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 chains	det
21	chains	chain	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 join	nsubj
22	join	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 eat	parataxis
23	into	into	ADP	_	26 web	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 web	det
25	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 web	compound
26	web	web	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 join	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 net	punct
28	like	like	ADP	_	30 net	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 net	det
30	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 web	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 eat	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	eat	present	most animals	one thing	nature		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient
2	eat	present · passive	one thing				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	join	present	the chains			into a food web like a net	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient into web=Co-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:4.

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.

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