--- title: From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread», a lesson of the biology course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: The slice of toast on your plate started as a grass. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread/) [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/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / From field to plate: wheat, flour and… # From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread Lesson 286 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 20 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread/0/) — The slice of toast on your plate started as a grass. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread/1/) — Wheat is a tall grass whose seeds, the grains, are ground into flour. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread/2/) — A farmer sows the grain, the plants grow all spring, and in summer a combine harvester cuts the stalks, beats out the grains and blows the straw away in one go. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread/3/) — The grain goes to a mill to become flour, the baker mixes the flour with water and yeast, and tiny living yeast cells breathe out gas that puffs the dough up. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread/4/) — Baking sets the bubbles, and that is why bread has holes. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread/5/) — Every step depends on soil, weather and peace: a wet harvest, a drought or a war that blocks the ships can change the price of bread on the other side of the world. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread/6/) — Bread comes from wheat, a grass whose seeds are ground into flour; wheat was first farmed about 10,000 years ago in the Middle East. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread/7/) — A combine harvester cuts the wheat, beats out the grains and blows away the straw at once, doing work that once took dozens of people with sickles. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread/8/) — Windmills and watermills once ground grain between big stones; today most flour is made in huge roller mills. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread/9/) — White flour is made from the inside of the grain, while wholemeal flour uses the whole grain, so it has more fibre. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread/10/) — Yeast is a tiny fungus that eats sugar and makes bubbles of gas; stretchy gluten traps the gas so the dough rises, and baking kills the yeast and sets the holes. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread/11/) — Ukraine has very rich black soil called chernozem and grows huge amounts of wheat and sunflowers, so it is called a breadbasket of the world. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread/12/) — When the war blocked ships from Ukraine in 2022, grain and bread prices rose in many countries. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread/13/) — Ploughing turns the soil and buries weeds, but many farmers now plough less to keep the soil, its worms and its microbes from drying and blowing away. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread/14/) — Mice and rats eat stored grain, which is one reason farmers have kept cats for thousands of years. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread/15/) — Rice, wheat and maize together give people about half of all their food energy; pasta is made from wheat, and tortillas are usually made from maize. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread/16/) — Rapeseed and sunflowers make seeds that are pressed into cooking oil, and the yellow rapeseed fields are busy with bees in spring. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread/17/) — Rain at harvest can spoil grain, frost can kill young plants and a drought can ruin a whole year's work, so farmers watch the weather closely. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread/18/) — In the 1840s a plant disease destroyed Ireland's potatoes, the main food of the poor; about a million people died and about a million more left the country. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread/19/) — The Svalbard seed vault in Norway keeps over a million seed samples of the world's crops inside a frozen mountain as a backup against war and disaster, because the cold keeps seeds alive for a very long time. - ← previous: [What a child can do for nature](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/285-what-a-child-can-do-for-nature/) - next →: [Farm animals: milk, eggs, wool and meat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/287-farm-animals-milk-eggs-wool-and-meat/) - ↑ back to [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/)