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title: In the most radioactive spots fallen leaves rot slowly, which scient… — The Chornobyl zone: how wild animals came back,… · tree and pragmatics
description: In the most radioactive spots fallen leaves rot slowly, which scientists think is because the tiny decomposers that break down dead things, such as fungi, germs and minibeasts, are harmed. Who acts: fallen leaves, scientists, tiny decomposers. A sentence of the lesson «The Chornobyl zone: how wild a
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# The Chornobyl zone: how wild animals came back, and what is still argued, sentence 14

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In the most radioactive spots fallen leaves rot slowly, which scientists think is because the tiny decomposers that break down dead things, such as fungi, germs and minibeasts, are harmed.

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**Who acts:** fallen leaves, scientists, tiny decomposers · **What happens:** fall, rot, think, break down, be · **To what, where:** radioactive spots, dead things, tiny decomposers

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Chornobyl zone: how wild animals came back, and what is still argued» 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 (fallen leaves, scientists, tiny decomposers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:376-the-chornobyl-zone-how-wild-animals-came-back-and-what-is-still-argued.lesson:14
# text = In the most radioactive spots fallen leaves rot slowly, which scientists think is because the tiny decomposers that break down dead things, such as fungi, germs and minibeasts, are harmed.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 376-the-chornobyl-zone-how-wild-animals-came-back-and-what-is-still-argued.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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	4	advmod	_	_
4	radioactive	radioactive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	spots	spot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
6	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	rot	rot	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obj	_	_
12	scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
15	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	decomposers	decomposer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	break	break	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	down	down	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	27	case	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
27	fungi	fungi	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:appos
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	minibeasts	minibeast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
33	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	harmed	harm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	ccomp	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **rot** | present | fallen leaves |  |  | the radioactive spots |  | slowly *property* | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | present | scientists |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent which=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 4 | **break down** | present | the tiny decomposers | dead things |  |  |  | such fungi and germs and minibeasts | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | present · passive |  | the tiny decomposers |  |  |  | harm *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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): R7-rel-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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