--- title: Worms, fungi and bacteria break down dead plants and animals into so… — Why living things die, and the circle of life in… · tree and pragmatics description: Worms, fungi and bacteria break down dead plants and animals into soil; this is called decomposition. Who acts: Worms. A sentence of the lesson «Why living things die, and the circle of life in nature» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/53-why-living-things-die-and-the-circle-of-life/8/) [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/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [Why living things die, and the circle…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/53-why-living-things-die-and-the-circle-of-life/) / 8 # Why living things die, and the circle of life in nature, sentence 8 Worms, fungi and bacteria break down dead plants and animals into soil; this is called decomposition. **Who acts:** Worms · **What happens:** break down, call · **To what, where:** dead plants, soil, this · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Why living things die, and the circle of life in nature» of the religion ethics 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 (Worms), 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:8 # text = Worms, fungi and bacteria break down dead plants and animals into soil; this is called decomposition. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Worms worm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 fungi fungi NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 bacteria bacteria NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 6 break break VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 down down ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:compound:prt 8 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 12 into into ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=6:punct 15 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 17 nsubj:pass _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:nsubj:pass|HaikuPos=DET:DT:Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 18 decomposition decomposition NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 xcomp _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **break down** | present | Worms and fungi and bacteria | dead plants and animals | | | | into soil *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent plant=Patient into soil=Result | | 2 | **call** | present · passive | | this | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:religion-ethics:053-why-living-things-die-and-the-circle-of-life.lesson:8`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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. 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