--- title: A single handful of healthy soil holds more living things than there… — Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our… · tree and pragmatics description: A single handful of healthy soil holds more living things than there are people on Earth: bacteria, fungi, tiny animals and roots, all turning dead stuff into food for plants. Who acts: single handful, people. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (single handful, people), 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:4 # text = A single handful of healthy soil holds more living things than there are people on Earth: bacteria, fungi, tiny animals and roots, all turning dead stuff into food for plants. # 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 handful handful NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 healthy healthy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:amod 6 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:compound 7 holds hold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 10 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 9 living live ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 11 than than SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 13 expl _ _ 13 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 14 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 17 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 18 bacteria bacterium NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 appos _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 fungi fungi NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:nmod 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 30 det _ _ 28 turning turn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 amod _ _ 29 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 stuff stuff NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 appos _ _ 31 into into ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 33 for for ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** | present | a single handful healthy soil | more living things | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | | 2 | **does** | present | people on Earth | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **turn** | gerund | | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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:291-bees-worms-and-soil-the-hidden-helpers-of-our-food.lesson:4`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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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