Balance in a food web, sentence 12

An animal that eats many kinds of food survives the loss of one food more easily than an animal that eats only one.

Who acts: animal · What happens: eat, survive · To what, where: many kinds, loss, one

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 (animal), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 animal	det
2	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 survives	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 eats	nsubj
4	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 animal	acl:relcl
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kinds	amod
6	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eats	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 food	case
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kinds	nmod
9	survives	survive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 loss	det
11	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 survives	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 food	case
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 food	nummod
14	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 loss	nmod
15	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 easily	advmod
16	easily	easily	ADV	_	9 survives	advmod
17	than	than	ADP	_	19 animal	case
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 animal	det
19	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 easily	obl
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 eats	nsubj
21	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 animal	acl:relcl
22	only	only	ADV	_	23 one	advmod
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 eats	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 survives	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat	present	a animal	many kinds of food		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Patient
2	survive	present	a animal	the loss of one food	easily property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme loss=Circumstance
3	eat	present	a animal	one		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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:030-balance-in-food-webs.lesson:12.

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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