--- title: Compost is old food and plants broken down by microbes, fungi and wo… — Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our… · tree and pragmatics description: Compost is old food and plants broken down by microbes, fungi and worms into rich soil, and it gets warm in the middle as the microbes work. Who acts: Compost, microbes. A sentence of the lesson «Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our food» of the biology course of Mova's primary school wit --- [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/17/) [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/) / 17 # Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our food, sentence 17 Compost is old food and plants broken down by microbes, fungi and worms into rich soil, and it gets warm in the middle as the microbes work. **Who acts:** Compost, microbes · **What happens:** be, break down, get, work · **To what, where:** old food, rich soil, middle 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 (Compost, microbes), 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:17 # text = Compost is old food and plants broken down by microbes, fungi and worms into rich soil, and it gets warm in the middle as the microbes work. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Compost compost NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 7 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:acl 8 down down ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 by by ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 microbes microbe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl:agent _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 fungi fungi NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 worms worm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 15 into into ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 22 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 xcomp _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 26 as as SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 microbes microbe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 work work VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Compost | old food and plants | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **break down** | participle | | old food and plants *not said here* | | | | into rich soil *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into soil=Result | | 3 | **get** | present | Compost | | | the middle | | warm *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **work** | present | the microbes | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:17`. **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, 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. 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