Balance in a food web, sentence 11
If a prey animal disappears, the predators that ate it must find other food, move away or decline.
Who acts: prey animal, predators · What happens: disappear, eat, find, move away, decline · To what, where: animal, other food
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 animal, 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 | _ | 5 disappears | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 animal | det |
| 3 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 animal | compound |
| 4 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 disappears | nsubj |
| 5 | disappears | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 find | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 disappears | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 predators | det |
| 8 | predators | predator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 find | nsubj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 ate | nsubj |
| 10 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 predators | acl:relcl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 ate | obj |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 find | aux |
| 13 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 food | amod |
| 15 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 find | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 move | punct |
| 17 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 find | conj |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 move | advmod |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 decline | cc |
| 20 | decline | decline | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 move | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 find | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disappear a condition, not said to happen | present | a prey animal | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | eat | past | the predators | animal | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | find | must | the predators | other food | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic | ||||
| 4 | move away | infinitive | the predators not said here | away property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | decline | infinitive | the predators not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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:11.
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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