--- title: The Svalbard seed vault in Norway keeps over a million seed samples… — From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread · tree and pragmatics description: The Svalbard seed vault in Norway keeps over a million seed samples of the world's crops inside a frozen mountain as a backup against war and disaster, because the cold keeps seeds alive for a very long time. Who acts: seed vault, cold. 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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 (seed vault, cold), 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:19 # text = The Svalbard seed vault in Norway keeps over a million seed samples of the world's crops inside a frozen mountain as a backup against war and disaster, because the cold keeps seeds alive for a very long time. # 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 Svalbard svalbard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 seed seed NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 vault vault NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Norway Norway PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 over over ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:det 10 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 11 seed seed NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 samples sample NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:obl 13 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 's 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 crops crop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 18 inside inside ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 frozen freeze VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 amod _ _ 21 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 22 as as ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 backup backup NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 25 against against ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 disaster disaster NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 30 because because SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 cold cold NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 34 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 35 alive alive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 xcomp _ _ 36 for for ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 38 very very ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:obl 41 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | present | the seed vault in Norway | million seed samples of the world's crops | | a frozen mountain | | as a backup against war and disaster | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sample=Theme inside mountain=Location | | 2 | **freeze** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **keep** | present | the cold | seeds | | | time | alive *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Theme | | 4 | **sample** | | | the world's crops | | | | | nom sample «cognition transitive»: of=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:19`. **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 ×3, R7-rel-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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