--- title: To guess what happens when one living thing disappears, follow the a… — Balance in a food web · tree and pragmatics description: To guess what happens when one living thing disappears, follow the arrows: what it ate will grow in number, what ate it will go hungry and must switch food, shrink or move away. Who acts: one living thing, thing, number. A sentence of the lesson «Balance in a food web» of the world course of Mova's --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/30-balance-in-food-webs/4/) [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/) / [Balance in a food web](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/30-balance-in-food-webs/) / 4 # Balance in a food web, sentence 4 To guess what happens when one living thing disappears, follow the arrows: what it ate will grow in number, what ate it will go hungry and must switch food, shrink or move away. **Who acts:** one living thing, thing, number · **What happens:** guess, happen, disappear, follow, eat, grow · **To what, where:** arrows, number, thing, food · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Balance in a food web» 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 (one living thing, thing, number), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:030-balance-in-food-webs.lesson:4 # text = To guess what happens when one living thing disappears, follow the arrows: what it ate will grow in number, what ate it will go hungry and must switch food, shrink or move away. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 030-balance-in-food-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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 guess guess VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 nsubj _ _ 4 happens happen VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 5 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 6 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nsubj 7 living living NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 8 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obj 9 disappears disappear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 follow follow VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 arrows arrow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 15 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 17 obj _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 18 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:ccomp 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 27 nsubj _ _ 24 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 acl _ _ 28 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 xcomp _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 switch switch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 32 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 shrink shrink VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 35 or or CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 move move VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=34:conj 37 away away ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **guess** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **happen** | present | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **disappear** | present | one living thing | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **follow** | infinitive | | the arrows | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme | | 5 | **eat** | past | thing | the arrows | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient | | 6 | **grow** | future | | | | number | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in number=Location | | 7 | **eat** | past | | thing | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 8 | **go** | future | number | | | | | hungry *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **switch** | must | number *not said here* | food | | | | | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient | | 10 | **shrink** | infinitive | number *not said here* | | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 11 | **move away** | infinitive | number *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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:world:030-balance-in-food-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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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: [Balance in a food web, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/30-balance-in-food-webs/3/) - next →: [Balance in a food web, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/30-balance-in-food-webs/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/30-balance-in-food-webs/)