--- title: So the food chain is really a circle: the sun feeds the grass, the g… — Why living things die, and the circle of life in… · tree and pragmatics description: So the food chain is really a circle: the sun feeds the grass, the grass feeds the rabbit, the rabbit feeds the fox, and when the fox dies, beetles, worms and bacteria turn it back into soil for the grass. Who acts: food chain, sun, grass, rabbit. 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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 (food chain, sun, grass, rabbit), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:053-why-living-things-die-and-the-circle-of-life.lesson:3 # text = So the food chain is really a circle: the sun feeds the grass, the grass feeds the rabbit, the rabbit feeds the fox, and when the fox dies, beetles, worms and bacteria turn it back into soil for the grass. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 053-why-living-things-die-and-the-circle-of-life.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 So so ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 chain chain NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 really really ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 circle circle NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 feeds feed VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 feeds feed VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 rabbit rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 rabbit rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 feeds feed VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 29 when when SCONJ WRB _ 32 mark _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 dies die VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 advcl _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 beetles beetle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 worms worm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 conj _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 bacteria bacterium NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 conj _ _ 39 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obj _ _ 41 back back ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 42 into into ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 44 for for ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=43:nmod 47 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18: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 | the food chain | a circle | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **feed** | present | the sun | the grass | | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Recipient | | 3 | **feed** | present | the grass | | the rabbit | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Recipient | | 4 | **feed** | present | the rabbit | | the fox | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Recipient | | 5 | **die** | present | the fox | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 6 | **turn** | present | beetles and worms and bacteria | rabbit | | | | for the grass | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=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:religion-ethics:053-why-living-things-die-and-the-circle-of-life.lesson:3`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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. 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