--- title: People are omnivores, eating plants and animals, and growing plants… — Food chains: sun, plants, plant-eaters, meat-eat… · tree and pragmatics description: People are omnivores, eating plants and animals, and growing plants for people uses much less land than feeding plants to animals and eating the animals. Who acts: People, omnivores, growing, less land. A sentence of the lesson «Food chains: sun, plants, plant-eaters, meat-eaters» of the biology cou --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/46-food-chains/15/) [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/) / [Food chains: sun, plants, plant-eaters…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/46-food-chains/) / 15 # Food chains: sun, plants, plant-eaters, meat-eaters, sentence 15 People are omnivores, eating plants and animals, and growing plants for people uses much less land than feeding plants to animals and eating the animals. **Who acts:** People, omnivores, growing, less land · **What happens:** be, eat, grow, use, feed · **To what, where:** omnivores, plants, less land, animals This is a sentence of the lesson «Food chains: sun, plants, plant-eaters, meat-eaters» 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 (People, omnivores, growing, less land), 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:15 # text = People are omnivores, eating plants and animals, and growing plants for people uses much less land than feeding plants to animals and eating the animals. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 omnivores omnivore NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 eating eat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 acl _ _ 6 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 11 growing grow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 csubj _ _ 12 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 15 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 16 much much ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 18 amod _ _ 18 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 than than SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 20 feeding feed VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 acl _ _ 21 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 eating eat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 conj _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | People | omnivores | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **eat** | gerund | omnivores *not said here* | plants and animals | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Patient | | 3 | **grow** | gerund | | plants | | | | for people | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent plant=Product for people=Beneficiary | | 4 | **use** | present | growing | less land | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Patient | | 5 | **feed** | gerund | less land *not said here* | plants | animals | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent plant=Theme to animal=Recipient | | 6 | **eat** | gerund | less land *not said here* | the animals | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Patient | 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:15`. **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): R6-punct-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: [Food chains: sun, plants, plant-eaters…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/46-food-chains/14/) - next →: [Who eats whom: predators, prey, scaven…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/47-predators-prey-scavengers-decomposers/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/46-food-chains/)