--- title: Ploughing turns the soil and buries weeds, but many farmers now plou… — From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: Ploughing, many farmers. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ploughing, many farmers), 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:13 # text = 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. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Ploughing plough NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 buries bury VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 7 weeds weed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 farmers farmer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 12 now now ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 plough plough VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 14 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 13 advmod _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 worms worm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 microbes microbe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 25 from from SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 26 drying dry VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 blowing blow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 conj _ _ 29 away away ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | present | Ploughing | the soil | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme soil=Result | | 2 | **bury** | present | Ploughing *not said here* | weeds | | | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weed=Theme | | 3 | **plough** | present | many farmers | | | | now | less *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **keep** | to-infinitive | many farmers *not said here* | the soil and farmer's worms and farmer's microbes | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Theme | | 5 | **dry** | gerund | many farmers *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **blow away** | gerund | many farmers *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | 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:biology:286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread.lesson:13`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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. 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