--- title: Most of these minibeasts eat dead leaves and rotting wood, so they a… — Spiders and other minibeasts under logs and stones · tree and pragmatics description: Most of these minibeasts eat dead leaves and rotting wood, so they are the garden's recycling team, turning old plants back into soil. Who acts: Most, leaves. A sentence of the lesson «Spiders and other minibeasts under logs and stones» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depende --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/220-spiders-and-other-minibeasts-under-logs-and-stones/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Spiders and other minibeasts under log…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/220-spiders-and-other-minibeasts-under-logs-and-stones/) / 3 # Spiders and other minibeasts under logs and stones, sentence 3 Most of these minibeasts eat dead leaves and rotting wood, so they are the garden's recycling team, turning old plants back into soil. **Who acts:** Most, leaves · **What happens:** eat, rot, be, turn back · **To what, where:** dead leaves, recycling team, old plants, soil This is a sentence of the lesson «Spiders and other minibeasts under logs and stones» 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 (Most, leaves), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:220-spiders-and-other-minibeasts-under-logs-and-stones.lesson:3 # text = Most of these minibeasts eat dead leaves and rotting wood, so they are the garden's recycling team, turning old plants back into soil. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 220-spiders-and-other-minibeasts-under-logs-and-stones.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 ×1 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 5 nsubj _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 4 det _ _ 4 minibeasts minibeast NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ 5 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 rotting rot VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ _ 10 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obj 11 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 14 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod:poss _ _ 17 's 's PART POS _ 16 case _ _ 18 recycling recycling NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 team team NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 turning turn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ _ 22 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 back back ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 25 into into ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | present | Most of this minibeasts | dead leaves and wood | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient | | 2 | **rot** | gerund | Most of this minibeasts *not said here* | | | | | | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **is a** | present | leaves *= leaf* | the garden's recycling team | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **turn back** | gerund | Most of this minibeasts *not said here* | old plants | | soil | | | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Theme | 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](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:220-spiders-and-other-minibeasts-under-logs-and-stones.lesson:3`. **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 ×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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