Soil and what lives in it, sentence 4

Earthworms, beetles, woodlice, fungi and bacteria break down dead matter and give its nutrients back to the soil for plants; these are the decomposers.

Who acts: Earthworms, these · What happens: break down, give, be · To what, where: dead matter, nutrients, 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 (Earthworms, these), 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	Earthworms	earthworm	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 break	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 beetles	punct
3	beetles	beetle	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Earthworms	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 woodlice	punct
5	woodlice	woodlice	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Earthworms	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fungi	punct
7	fungi	fungi	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Earthworms	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bacteria	cc
9	bacteria	bacteria	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Earthworms	conj
10	break	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	down	down	ADP	_	10 break	compound:prt
12	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 matter	amod
13	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 break	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 give	cc
15	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 break	conj
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 nutrients	nmod:poss
17	nutrients	nutrient	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 give	obj
18	back	back	ADV	_	15 give	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 soil	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 soil	det
21	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 back	obl
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 plants	case
23	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 give	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 decomposers	punct
25	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	28 decomposers	nsubj
26	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 decomposers	cop
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 decomposers	det
28	decomposers	decomposer	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 break	parataxis
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 break	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	break down	present	Earthworms and beetles and woodlice and fungi and bacteria	dead matter		vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent matter=Patient
2	give	present	Earthworms and beetles and woodlice and fungi and bacteria not said here	Soil's nutrients	for plants	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent nutrient=Theme for plant=Asset
3	is a	present	these	the decomposers		tree rules

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: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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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