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title: Mice and rats eat stored grain, which is one reason farmers have kep… — From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread · tree and pragmatics
description: Mice and rats eat stored grain, which is one reason farmers have kept cats for thousands of years. Who acts: Mice, farmers. 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 claus
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# From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread, sentence 14

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Mice and rats eat stored grain, which is one reason farmers have kept cats for thousands of years.

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**Who acts:** Mice, farmers · **What happens:** eat, store, be, keep · **To what, where:** stored grain, one reason, cats

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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 (Mice, 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:14
# text = Mice and rats eat stored grain, which is one reason farmers have kept cats for thousands of years.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	Mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	rats	rat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	stored	store	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	acl:relcl	_	_
12	farmers	farmer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	acl	_	_
15	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | Mice and rats | stored grain |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Patient |
| 2 | **store** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | one reason |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **keep** | present · perfect | farmers | cats |  |  |  | for thousands of years | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme |

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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:14`.

**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): R5-strong ×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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