Balance in a food web, sentence 10

If prey animals increase too much, they can eat too many plants and harm the whole habitat.

Who acts: prey animals, predators · What happens: increase, eat, harm · To what, where: much, many plants, whole habitat

This is a sentence of the lesson «Balance in a food web» 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 (prey animals, predators), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 increase	mark
2	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 animals	compound
3	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 increase	nsubj
4	increase	increase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 eat	advcl
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 increase	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 increase	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 eat	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 eat	aux
10	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	too	too	ADV	_	12 many	advmod
12	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 plants	amod
13	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 eat	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 harm	cc
15	harm	harm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 eat	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 habitat	det
17	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 habitat	amod
18	habitat	habitat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 harm	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 eat	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	increase a condition, not said to happen	present	prey animals	much	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer much=Patient
2	eat	can	predators = predator	many plants	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Patient
3	harm	infinitive	predators = predator not said here	the whole habitat	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus habitat=Experiencer

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:030-balance-in-food-webs.lesson:10.

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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