--- title: A handful of healthy soil holds more living things than there are pe… — Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our… · tree and pragmatics description: A handful of healthy soil holds more living things than there are people on Earth, and it takes hundreds of years to make a few centimetres of soil. Who acts: handful, it. A sentence of the lesson «Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our food» of the biology course of Mova's primary school w --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/291-bees-worms-and-soil-the-hidden-helpers-of-our-food/16/) [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/) / [Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpe…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/291-bees-worms-and-soil-the-hidden-helpers-of-our-food/) / 16 # Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our food, sentence 16 A handful of healthy soil holds more living things than there are people on Earth, and it takes hundreds of years to make a few centimetres of soil. **Who acts:** handful, it · **What happens:** hold, take, make · **To what, where:** more living things, hundreds, few centimetres This is a sentence of the lesson «Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our food» 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 (handful, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:291-bees-worms-and-soil-the-hidden-helpers-of-our-food.lesson:16 # text = A handful of healthy soil holds more living things than there are people on Earth, and it takes hundreds of years to make a few centimetres of soil. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 291-bees-worms-and-soil-the-hidden-helpers-of-our-food.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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 handful handful NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 healthy healthy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 holds hold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 9 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 8 living live ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 10 than than SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 11 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 12 expl _ _ 12 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 13 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 20 hundreds hundred NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 acl _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 centimetres centimetre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **hold** | present | a handful of healthy soil | more living things | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | | 2 | **take** | present | it | hundreds of years | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=Theme | | 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | | a few centimetres of soil | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset centimetre=Product | 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:291-bees-worms-and-soil-the-hidden-helpers-of-our-food.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): 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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