--- title: Rain at harvest can spoil grain, frost can kill young plants and a d… — From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: Rain, frost, drought, 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 (Rain, frost, drought, 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:17 # text = 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. # 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 Rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 at at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 harvest harvest NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 spoil spoil VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 grain grain NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 frost frost NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 11 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 drought drought NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 ruin ruin VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 's 's PART POS _ 20 case _ _ 22 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 25 farmers farmer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 watch watch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 weather weather NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 closely closely ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spoil** | can | Rain at harvest | grain | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **kill** | can | frost | young plants | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Theme | | 3 | **ruin** | can | a drought | a whole year's work | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Patient | | 4 | **watch** | present | farmers | the weather | | | | closely *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weather=Theme | | 5 | **work** | | a whole year | | | | | | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:17`. **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. 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