--- title: In the 1840s a plant disease destroyed Ireland's potatoes, the main… — From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread · tree and pragmatics description: In the 1840s a plant disease destroyed Ireland's potatoes, the main food of the poor; about a million people died and about a million more left the country. Who acts: plant disease, million people, million. 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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 (plant disease, million people, million), 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:18 # text = In the 1840s a plant disease destroyed Ireland's potatoes, the main food of the poor; about a million people died and about a million more left the country. # 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 ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 1840s 1840 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 7 obl _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 disease disease NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 destroyed destroy VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 Ireland Ireland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 potatoes potato NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 main main ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 appos _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 nmod _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 19 about about ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 25 about about ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nsubj _ _ 28 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 27 advmod _ _ 29 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **destroy** | past | a plant disease | Ireland's potatoes | | the 1840s | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent potato=Patient | | 2 | **die** | past | million people | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **leave** | past | a million | the country | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Theme | 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:18`. **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 ×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. 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