Soil and what lives in it, sentence 10
Decomposers such as fungi, bacteria and earthworms break down dead matter and return nutrients to the soil.
Who acts: Decomposers · What happens: break down, return · To what, where: dead matter, nutrients, soil
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soil and what lives in it» 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 (Decomposers), 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 | Decomposers | decomposer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 break | nsubj |
| 2 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 4 fungi | case |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 2 such | fixed |
| 4 | fungi | fungi | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Decomposers | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bacteria | punct |
| 6 | bacteria | bacteria | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fungi | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 earthworms | cc |
| 8 | earthworms | earthworm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Decomposers | conj |
| 9 | break | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 break | compound:prt |
| 11 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 matter | amod |
| 12 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 break | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 return | cc |
| 14 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 break | conj |
| 15 | nutrients | nutrient | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 return | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 soil | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 soil | det |
| 18 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 return | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 break | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break down | present | Decomposers such fungi and bacteria and earthworms | dead matter | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent matter=Patient | ||||
| 2 | return | present | Decomposers such fungi and bacteria and earthworms not said here | nutrients | the soil | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent nutrient=Theme to soil=Destination |
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:063-soil-and-what-lives-in-it.lesson:10.
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): R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-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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