Balance in a food web, sentence 5
Only about a tenth of the energy at one step of a food chain passes on to the next step.
Who acts: tenth · What happens: pass on, step · To what, where: food chain
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 (tenth), 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 4 tenth | advmod |
| 2 | about | about | ADP | _ | 4 tenth | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 tenth | det |
| 4 | tenth | tenth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 passes | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 energy | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 energy | det |
| 7 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tenth | nmod |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 step | case |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 step | nummod |
| 10 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tenth | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 chain | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 chain | det |
| 13 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 chain | compound |
| 14 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 step | nmod |
| 15 | passes | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 passes | compound:prt |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 step | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 step | det |
| 19 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 step | amod |
| 20 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 passes | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 passes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass on | present | a tenth of the energy at one step of a food chain | to the next step | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to step=Destination | ||||
| 2 | step | a food chain | nom step «act transitive»: of=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:5.
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): R7-rel-agree ×1. 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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