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title: Kick through autumn leaves and you are walking on next year's soil:… — Forests: woodland through the year and the great… · tree and pragmatics
description: Kick through autumn leaves and you are walking on next year's soil: fungi and tiny creatures rot the leaves and dead wood back into food for the trees. Who acts: you, fungi, next year. A sentence of the lesson «Forests: woodland through the year and the great northern forest» of the biology course o
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# Forests: woodland through the year and the great northern forest, sentence 1

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Kick through autumn leaves and you are walking on next year's soil: fungi and tiny creatures rot the leaves and dead wood back into food for the trees.

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**Who acts:** you, fungi, next year · **What happens:** kick, walk, rot, soil · **To what, where:** autumn leaves, soil, leaves, food

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Forests: woodland through the year and the great northern forest» of the biology 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 (you, fungi, next year), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:012-forests-woodland-through-the-year.lesson:1
# text = Kick through autumn leaves and you are walking on next year's soil: fungi and tiny creatures rot the leaves and dead wood back into food for the trees.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 012-forests-woodland-through-the-year.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Kick	kick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	through	through	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
15	fungi	fungi	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
19	rot	rot	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
25	back	back	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kick** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | autumn leaves |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **walk** | present · progressive | you |  |  | next year's soil |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on soil=Trajectory |
| 3 | **rot** | present | fungi and tiny creatures | the leaves and dead wood |  | food for the trees |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **soil** |  | next year |  |  |  |  |  | nom soil «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:biology:012-forests-woodland-through-the-year.lesson:1`.

**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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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