--- title: The floor is the forest's kitchen and recycling bin: fungi, bacteria… — The rainforest from below: understorey and fores… · tree and pragmatics description: The floor is the forest's kitchen and recycling bin: fungi, bacteria, termites and worms turn a fallen leaf into food for the trees again in just weeks, so the soil itself stays thin and poor. Who acts: floor, fungi, soil. A sentence of the lesson «The rainforest from below: understorey and forest f --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/3-the-rainforest-from-below/2/) [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/) / [The rainforest from below: understorey…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/3-the-rainforest-from-below/) / 2 # The rainforest from below: understorey and forest floor, sentence 2 The floor is the forest's kitchen and recycling bin: fungi, bacteria, termites and worms turn a fallen leaf into food for the trees again in just weeks, so the soil itself stays thin and poor. **Who acts:** floor, fungi, soil · **What happens:** be, turn, fall, stay · **To what, where:** kitchen, fallen leaf, food This is a sentence of the lesson «The rainforest from below: understorey and forest floor» 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 (floor, fungi, soil), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:003-the-rainforest-from-below.lesson:2 # text = The floor is the forest's kitchen and recycling bin: fungi, bacteria, termites and worms turn a fallen leaf into food for the trees again in just weeks, so the soil itself stays thin and poor. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 003-the-rainforest-from-below.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 kitchen kitchen NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 recycling recycling NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 bin bin NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 12 fungi fungi NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 bacteria bacteria NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 termites termite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 worms worm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=16:conj 19 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 fallen fall VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 amod _ _ 22 leaf leaf NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 23 into into ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 28 again again ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 just just ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 33 so so ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 36 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes 35 nmod:unmarked _ _ 37 stays stay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 38 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 xcomp _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 conj _ _ 41 . . 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 | **is a** | present | the floor | the forest's kitchen and recycling bin | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **turn** | present | fungi and bacteria and termites and worms | a fallen leaf | | food for the trees | again; week | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme into food=Trajectory | | 3 | **fall** | participle | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **stay** | present | the soil floor | | | | | thin *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP 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:003-the-rainforest-from-below.lesson:2`. **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): R3-conj-first ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The rainforest from below: understorey…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/3-the-rainforest-from-below/1/) - next →: [The rainforest from below: understorey…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/3-the-rainforest-from-below/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/3-the-rainforest-from-below/)