--- title: A compost heap gets warm because microbes break down the scraps and… — Browning apples, rotting and mould · tree and pragmatics description: A compost heap gets warm because microbes break down the scraps and release energy as heat. Who acts: compost heap, microbes. A sentence of the lesson «Browning apples, rotting and mould» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/23-browning-apples-rotting-and-mould/18/) [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/) / [Chemistry](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/) / [Browning apples, rotting and mould](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/23-browning-apples-rotting-and-mould/) / 18 # Browning apples, rotting and mould, sentence 18 A compost heap gets warm because microbes break down the scraps and release energy as heat. **Who acts:** compost heap, microbes · **What happens:** get, break down, release · **To what, where:** scraps, energy This is a sentence of the lesson «Browning apples, rotting and mould» of the chemistry 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 (compost heap, microbes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chemistry:023-browning-apples-rotting-and-mould.lesson:18 # text = A compost heap gets warm because microbes break down the scraps and release energy as heat. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chemistry # lesson = 023-browning-apples-rotting-and-mould.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): R8-pos-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 compost compost NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 heap heap NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 6 because because SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 microbes microbe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 break break VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 9 down down ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 scraps scrap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 release release VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 14 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 as as ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 heat heat NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 . . 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 | **get** | present | a compost heap | | | | | warm *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **break down** | present | microbes | the scraps | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scrap=Patient | | 3 | **release** | present | microbes *not said here* | energy | | | | as heat | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer energy=Source | 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:chemistry:023-browning-apples-rotting-and-mould.lesson:18`. **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): 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: [Browning apples, rotting and mould, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/23-browning-apples-rotting-and-mould/17/) - next →: [Browning apples, rotting and mould, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/23-browning-apples-rotting-and-mould/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/23-browning-apples-rotting-and-mould/)