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title: On the hot wet forest floor dead wood and leaves rot very fast, and… — The Amazon forest floor: leafcutters, army ants,… · tree and pragmatics
description: On the hot wet forest floor dead wood and leaves rot very fast, and most of the forest's goodness is held in living plants, not the thin soil. Who acts: dead wood. A sentence of the lesson «The Amazon forest floor: leafcutters, army ants, tapirs, jaguars and the giant spider» of the biology course o
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# The Amazon forest floor: leafcutters, army ants, tapirs, jaguars and the giant spider, sentence 13

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On the hot wet forest floor dead wood and leaves rot very fast, and most of the forest's goodness is held in living plants, not the thin soil.

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**Who acts:** dead wood · **What happens:** rot, hold · **To what, where:** hot wet forest floor, most, living plants

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Amazon forest floor: leafcutters, army ants, tapirs, jaguars and the giant spider» 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 (dead wood), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:157-the-amazon-forest-floor.lesson:13
# text = On the hot wet forest floor dead wood and leaves rot very fast, and most of the forest's goodness is held in living plants, not the thin soil.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 157-the-amazon-forest-floor.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): R5-strong ×2
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:compound
7	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nsubj
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	rot	rot	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
16	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	23	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	goodness	goodness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **rot** | present | dead wood and leaves |  |  | the hot wet forest floor |  | fast *property* | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **hold** | present · passive |  | most of the forest's goodness |  | living plants and the thin soil |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in plant=Location |

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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:157-the-amazon-forest-floor.lesson:13`.

**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. **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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