--- title: A real fox eats rabbits, mice, birds, worms, beetles, fruit and left… — Food chains: sun, plants, plant-eaters, meat-eat… · tree and pragmatics description: A real fox eats rabbits, mice, birds, worms, beetles, fruit and leftovers, so food chains join into a tangled food web, which lets animals switch food when one runs short. Who acts: real fox, food chains, tangled food web, animals. 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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 (real fox, food chains, tangled food web, animals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:046-food-chains.lesson:11 # text = A real fox eats rabbits, mice, birds, worms, beetles, fruit and leftovers, so food chains join into a tangled food web, which lets animals switch food when one runs short. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 046-food-chains.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 ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 rabbits rabbit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 worms worm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 beetles beetle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 fruit fruit NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 leftovers leftover NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=15:conj 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 20 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 chains chain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 join join VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 23 into into ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 25 tangled tangled ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 26 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 web web NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 30 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 31 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 32 switch switch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 34 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 36 advmod _ _ 35 one one PRON PRP Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=36:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:NN:Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 36 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 advcl _ _ 37 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 xcomp _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **eat** | present | a real fox | rabbits and mice and birds and worms and beetles and fruit and leftovers | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Patient | | 2 | **join** | present | food chains | | | | | into a tangled food web | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient into web=Co-Patient | | 3 | **let** | present | a tangled food web | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **switch** | infinitive | animals | food | | | | | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient | | 5 | **run** | present | one | | | | | short *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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:046-food-chains.lesson:11`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Food chains: sun, plants, plant-eaters…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/46-food-chains/10/) - next →: [Food chains: sun, plants, plant-eaters…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/46-food-chains/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/46-food-chains/)