--- title: Worms, fungi and bacteria break kitchen scraps down into rich compos… — The vegetable patch: peas, potatoes, tomatoes an… · tree and pragmatics description: Worms, fungi and bacteria break kitchen scraps down into rich compost, the middle of the heap can get warm, and the compost feeds the patch next year. Who acts: Worms, middle, compost. 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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 (Worms, middle, compost), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:338-the-vegetable-patch-peas-potatoes-tomatoes-and-slugs.lesson:16 # text = Worms, fungi and bacteria break kitchen scraps down into rich compost, the middle of the heap can get warm, and the compost feeds the patch next year. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 338-the-vegetable-patch-peas-potatoes-tomatoes-and-slugs.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Worms worm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=1:punct 3 fungi fungi NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 bacteria bacterium NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 break break VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 kitchen kitchen NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 scraps scrap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 down down ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 10 into into ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 compost compost NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 heap heap NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 21 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 compost compost NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 feeds feed VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 patch patch NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:nmod:unmarked 31 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **break down** | present | Worms and fungi and bacteria | kitchen scraps | | | | into rich compost *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent scrap=Patient into compost=Result | | 2 | **get** | can | the middle of the heap | | | | | warm *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **feed** | present | the compost | the patch | | | year | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patch=Recipient | 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:338-the-vegetable-patch-peas-potatoes-tomatoes-and-slugs.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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