Food chains and food webs, sentence 8
Consumers are living things that get their food by eating other living things.
Who acts: Consumers, things · What happens: live, get, eat · To what, where: things, food, other living things
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 (Consumers, things), 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 | Consumers | consumer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 living | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 living | aux |
| 3 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 living | obj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 get | nsubj |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 things | acl:relcl |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 food | nmod:poss |
| 8 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | obj |
| 9 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 10 eating | mark |
| 10 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 get | advcl |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 things | amod |
| 12 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 things | compound |
| 13 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 eating | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 living | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present · progressive | Consumers | things | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme thing=Location | ||||
| 2 | get | present | things | consumers's food | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | eat | gerund | things not said here | other living things | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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:8.
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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