Balance in a food web, sentence 4

To guess what happens when one living thing disappears, follow the arrows: what it ate will grow in number, what ate it will go hungry and must switch food, shrink or move away.

Who acts: one living thing, thing, number · What happens: guess, happen, disappear, follow, eat, grow · To what, where: arrows, number, thing, food · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (one living thing, thing, number), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 guess	mark
2	guess	guess	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happens	nsubj
4	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 guess	ccomp
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 disappears	advmod
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 thing	nummod
7	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thing	compound
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 disappears	nsubj
9	disappears	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 happens	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 follow	punct
11	follow	follow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 guess	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 arrows	det
13	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 follow	obj
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 ate	punct
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 ate	obj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 ate	nsubj
17	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 arrows	acl:relcl
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 grow	aux
19	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 follow	parataxis
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 number	case
21	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 grow	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 go	punct
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 go	nsubj
24	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 what	acl:relcl
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 ate	obj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 go	aux
27	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 number	acl
28	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 go	xcomp
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 switch	cc
30	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 switch	aux
31	switch	switch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	28 hungry	conj
32	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 switch	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 shrink	punct
34	shrink	shrink	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	31 switch	conj
35	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 move	cc
36	move	move	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	31 switch	conj
37	away	away	ADV	_	36 move	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 follow	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	guess	to-infinitive					vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	happen	present					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	disappear	present	one living thing				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	follow	infinitive		the arrows			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme
5	eat	past	thing	the arrows			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient
6	grow	future			number		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in number=Location
7	eat	past		thing			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
8	go	future	number			hungry property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	switch	must	number not said here	food			vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient
10	shrink	infinitive	number not said here				vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
11	move away	infinitive	number not said here			away property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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:4.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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