--- title: Earthworms pull dead leaves down, eat them with soil and leave rich… — Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our… · tree and pragmatics description: Earthworms pull dead leaves down, eat them with soil and leave rich worm casts, while their tunnels let air and rain sink in. Who acts: Earthworms, tunnels, air. A sentence of the lesson «Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our food» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its de --- [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/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/) / [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/) / 3 # Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our food, sentence 3 Earthworms pull dead leaves down, eat them with soil and leave rich worm casts, while their tunnels let air and rain sink in. **Who acts:** Earthworms, tunnels, air · **What happens:** pull down, eat, leave, let, sink in · **To what, where:** dead leaves, leaves, rich worm casts 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 (Earthworms, tunnels, air), 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:3 # text = Earthworms pull dead leaves down, eat them with soil and leave rich worm casts, while their tunnels let air and rain sink in. # 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): no change 1 Earthworms earthworm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 pull pull VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 down down ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 8 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 leave leave VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 13 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 worm worm NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 casts cast NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 17 while while SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 tunnels tunnel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 let let VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 21 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 24 sink sink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 25 in in ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **pull down** | present | Earthworms | dead leaves | | | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme | | 2 | **eat** | present | Earthworms *not said here* | leaves *= leaf* | | | | with soil | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 3 | **leave** | present | Earthworms *not said here* | rich worm casts | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cast=Theme | | 4 | **let** | present | Earthworms's tunnels | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **sink in** | infinitive | air and rain | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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: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): no change. **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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