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title: In nature most animals eat more than one thing and are eaten by more… — Food chains and food webs · tree and pragmatics
description: In nature most animals eat more than one thing and are eaten by more than one thing, so the chains join into a food web, like a net. Who acts: most animals, one thing, chains. A sentence of the lesson «Food chains and food webs» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree a
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# Food chains and food webs, sentence 4

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In nature most animals eat more than one thing and are eaten by more than one thing, so the chains join into a food web, like a net.

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**Who acts:** most animals, one thing, chains · **What happens:** eat, join · **To what, where:** one thing, nature

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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 (most animals, one thing, chains), 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:4
# text = In nature most animals eat more than one thing and are eaten by more than one thing, so the chains join into a food web, like a net.
# 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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
4	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	8	advmod	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	6	fixed	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	17	advmod	_	_
15	than	than	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	chains	chain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	join	join	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	web	web	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	like	like	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	net	net	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | most animals | one thing |  | nature |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |
| 2 | **eat** | present · passive | one thing |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **join** | present | the chains |  |  |  |  | into a food web like a net | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient into web=Co-Patient |

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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.

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**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:4`.

**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/).

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