Food chains and food webs, sentence 6
Every food chain begins with a producer, such as a green plant or an alga.
Who acts: food chain · What happens: begin
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), 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 begins | nsubj |
| 4 | begins | begin | 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 begins | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 plant | punct |
| 9 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 13 plant | case |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 such | fixed |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 plant | det |
| 12 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 plant | amod |
| 13 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 producer | nmod |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 alga | cc |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 alga | det |
| 16 | alga | alga | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 plant | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 begins | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | present | every food chain | with a producer such a green plant or a alga | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with producer=Subeventuality |
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:6.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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