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title: Food scraps and leaves can be turned into compost that feeds the soil. — Caring for the environment · tree and pragmatics
description: Food scraps and leaves can be turned into compost that feeds the soil. Who acts: compost. A sentence of the lesson «Caring for the environment» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Caring for the environment, sentence 16

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Food scraps and leaves can be turned into compost that feeds the soil.

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**Who acts:** compost · **What happens:** turn, feed · **To what, where:** Food scraps, compost, soil

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Caring for the environment» 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 (compost), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:057-environment.lesson:16
# text = Food scraps and leaves can be turned into compost that feeds the soil.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 057-environment.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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	Food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	scraps	scrap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc
4	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	compost	compost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	feeds	feed	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **turn** | can · passive |  | Food scraps and leaves |  | compost |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into compost=Trajectory |
| 2 | **feed** | present | compost | the soil |  |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Recipient |

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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:057-environment.lesson:16`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×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/).

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