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title: Wheat is a tall grass whose seeds, the grains, are ground into flour. — From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread · tree and pragmatics
description: Wheat is a tall grass whose seeds, the grains, are ground into flour. Who acts: Wheat. A sentence of the lesson «From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread, sentence 1

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Wheat is a tall grass whose seeds, the grains, are ground into flour.

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**Who acts:** Wheat · **What happens:** be, grind · **To what, where:** tall grass, seeds, flour

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This is a sentence of the lesson «From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread» of the biology 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 (Wheat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread.lesson:1
# text = Wheat is a tall grass whose seeds, the grains, are ground into flour.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread.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	Wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	grains	grain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	appos	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	ground	grind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	flour	flour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	.	.	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 | **is a** | present | Wheat | a tall grass |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **grind** | present · passive |  | seeds |  | flour |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into flour=Product |

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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:biology:286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread.lesson:1`.

**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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