--- title: In a food chain such as grass, rabbit, fox, the grass is the produce… — Food chains: sun, plants, plant-eaters, meat-eat… · tree and pragmatics description: In a food chain such as grass, rabbit, fox, the grass is the producer, the rabbit a plant-eater or herbivore, and the fox a meat-eater or carnivore; arrows point from food to eater. Who acts: grass, arrows. A sentence of the lesson «Food chains: sun, plants, plant-eaters, meat-eaters» of the biology --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/46-food-chains/5/) [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/) / 5 # Food chains: sun, plants, plant-eaters, meat-eaters, sentence 5 In a food chain such as grass, rabbit, fox, the grass is the producer, the rabbit a plant-eater or herbivore, and the fox a meat-eater or carnivore; arrows point from food to eater. **Who acts:** grass, arrows · **What happens:** be, point · **To what, where:** producer, food chain, eater, food 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 (grass, arrows), 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:5 # text = In a food chain such as grass, rabbit, fox, the grass is the producer, the rabbit a plant-eater or herbivore, and the fox a meat-eater or carnivore; arrows point from food to eater. # 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): no change 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 chain chain NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 5 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 7 case _ _ 6 as as ADP IN _ 5 fixed _ _ 7 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 rabbit rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 producer producer NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 rabbit rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 22 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ _ 24 eater eater NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 25 or or CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 herbivore herbivore NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 32 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ _ 34 eater eater NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 appos _ _ 35 or or CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 carnivore carnivore NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ _ 37 ; ; PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 arrows arrow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj _ _ 39 point point VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 parataxis _ _ 40 from from ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 42 to to ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 eater eater NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 17 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 | **is a** | present | the grass | the producer and the rabbit and the fox and a plant eater or herbivore | | a food chain such grass and rabbit and fox | | | tree rules | | 2 | **point** | present | arrows | | eater | food | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to eater=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. 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