--- title: An animal that hunts other animals is a predator and the animal it h… — Food chains and food webs · tree and pragmatics description: An animal that hunts other animals is a predator and the animal it hunts is its prey; herbivores eat plants, carnivores eat animals, omnivores eat both. Who acts: animal, chain, herbivores, carnivores. A sentence of the lesson «Food chains and food webs» of the world course of Mova's primary school --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/26-food-chains-and-webs/2/) [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/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Food chains and food webs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/26-food-chains-and-webs/) / 2 # Food chains and food webs, sentence 2 An animal that hunts other animals is a predator and the animal it hunts is its prey; herbivores eat plants, carnivores eat animals, omnivores eat both. **Who acts:** animal, chain, herbivores, carnivores, omnivores · **What happens:** hunt, be, eat · **To what, where:** other animals, predator, animal, prey, plants, animals This is a sentence of the lesson «Food chains and food webs» of the world 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 (animal, chain, herbivores, carnivores), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:026-food-chains-and-webs.lesson:2 # text = An animal that hunts other animals is a predator and the animal it hunts is its prey; herbivores eat plants, carnivores eat animals, omnivores eat both. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 026-food-chains-and-webs.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 3 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 4 hunts hunt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 predator predator NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 hunts hunt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 16 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 prey prey NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 herbivores herbivore NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 21 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct 23 carnivores carnivore NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 parataxis _ _ 25 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 omnivores omnivore NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 29 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 28 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 9 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 | **hunt** | present | a animal | other animals | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | a animal | a predator and chain's prey | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **hunt** | present | chain | the animal *not said here* | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | present | the animal | chain's prey | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **eat** | present | herbivores | plants | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Patient | | 6 | **eat** | present | carnivores | animals | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Patient | | 7 | **eat** | present | omnivores | both | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent both=Patient | 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:world:026-food-chains-and-webs.lesson:2`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Food chains and food webs, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/26-food-chains-and-webs/1/) - next →: [Food chains and food webs, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/26-food-chains-and-webs/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/26-food-chains-and-webs/)