Soil and what lives in it, sentence 16
A compost heap turns kitchen and garden waste into humus with the help of decomposers.
Who acts: compost heap · What happens: turn, help · To what, where: kitchen, humus, decomposers
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 (compost heap), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 heap | det |
| 2 | compost | compost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heap | compound |
| 3 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turns | nsubj |
| 4 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turns | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 waste | cc |
| 7 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 waste | compound |
| 8 | waste | waste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kitchen | conj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 humus | case |
| 10 | humus | humus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turns | obl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 help | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 help | det |
| 13 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turns | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 decomposers | case |
| 15 | decomposers | decomposer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 help | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 turns | 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 | turn | present | a compost heap | kitchen and garden waste | humus | with the help of decomposers | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent kitchen=Theme into humus=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | help | decomposers | nom help «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:063-soil-and-what-lives-in-it.lesson:16.
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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