Balance in a food web, sentence 13
Predators help keep a habitat healthy by stopping plant-eaters from growing too many.
Who acts: Predators · What happens: help, keep, stop, grow · To what, where: habitat, plant eaters, many
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 (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 | Predators | predator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 help | nsubj |
| 2 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 help | xcomp |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 habitat | det |
| 5 | habitat | habitat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 keep | obj |
| 6 | healthy | healthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 keep | xcomp |
| 7 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 8 stopping | mark |
| 8 | stopping | stop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 keep | advcl |
| 9 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 eaters | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 plant | punct |
| 11 | eaters | eater | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 stopping | obj |
| 12 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 13 growing | mark |
| 13 | growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 stopping | advcl |
| 14 | too | too | ADV | _ | 15 many | advmod |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 growing | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 help | 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 | help | present | Predators | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | keep | infinitive | Predators not said here | a habitat | healthy property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent habitat=Theme | |||
| 3 | stop | gerund | Predators not said here | plant eaters | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality eater=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | grow | gerund | Predators not said here | many | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location many=Theme |
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:13.
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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