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title: Rice, wheat and maize together give people about half of all their f… — From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: Rice. A sentence of the lesson «From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependen
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# From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread, sentence 15

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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.

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**Who acts:** Rice · **What happens:** give, make · **To what, where:** half, people, pasta, wheat, tortillas, maize

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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 (Rice), 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:15
# text = 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.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=1:punct
3	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	maize	maize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=3:conj
6	together	together	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	iobj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:obj
9	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
10	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	7	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	pasta	pasta	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	tortillas	tortilla	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
26	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	maize	maize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
30	.	.	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 | **give** | present | Rice and wheat and maize | half of Rice's food energy | people |  |  | together *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent people=Recipient half=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | present · passive |  | pasta |  | wheat |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from wheat=Material |
| 3 | **make** | present · passive |  | tortillas |  | maize |  | usually *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from maize=Material |

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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:15`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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