--- title: Tiny drifting algae and bacteria called phytoplankton are the produc… — Food chains: sun, plants, plant-eaters, meat-eat… · tree and pragmatics description: Tiny drifting algae and bacteria called phytoplankton are the producers of the ocean, and they make roughly half of the oxygen produced on Earth. Who acts: bacteria, Tiny drifting algae, algae. A sentence of the lesson «Food chains: sun, plants, plant-eaters, meat-eaters» of the biology course of Mo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/46-food-chains/9/) [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/) / 9 # Food chains: sun, plants, plant-eaters, meat-eaters, sentence 9 Tiny drifting algae and bacteria called phytoplankton are the producers of the ocean, and they make roughly half of the oxygen produced on Earth. **Who acts:** bacteria, Tiny drifting algae, algae · **What happens:** drift, call, be, make, produce · **To what, where:** phytoplankton, producers, half, oxygen, Earth · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (bacteria, Tiny drifting algae, algae), 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:9 # text = Tiny drifting algae and bacteria called phytoplankton are the producers of the ocean, and they make roughly half of the oxygen produced on Earth. # 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 Tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 drifting drift VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 amod _ _ 3 algae alga NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 bacteria bacteria NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 6 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 7 phytoplankton phytoplankton NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 xcomp _ _ 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 producers producer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 ocean ocean NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 18 roughly roughly ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 17 obj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 oxygen oxygen NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 produced produce VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 acl _ _ 24 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drift** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **call** | participle | bacteria *not said here* | phytoplankton | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | Tiny drifting algae and bacteria | the producers | | | | of the ocean | tree rules | | 4 | **make** | present | algae *= alga* | half of the oxygen | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset half=Product | | 5 | **produce** | participle | | the oxygen *not said here* | | Earth | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:9`. **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): no change. **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…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/46-food-chains/7/) - next →: [Food chains: sun, plants, plant-eaters…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/46-food-chains/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/46-food-chains/)