--- title: A farmer sows the grain, the plants grow all spring, and in summer a… — From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread · tree and pragmatics description: A farmer sows the grain, the plants grow all spring, and in summer a combine harvester cuts the stalks, beats out the grains and blows the straw away in one go. Who acts: farmer, plants, combine harvester. 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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 (farmer, plants, combine harvester), 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:2 # text = A farmer sows the grain, the plants grow all spring, and in summer a combine harvester cuts the stalks, beats out the grains and blows the straw away in one go. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 farmer farmer NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 sows sow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 grain grain NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 10 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 11 det _ _ 11 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl:unmarked _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 combine combine NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 harvester harvester NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:conj 19 cuts cut VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 stalks stalk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 beats beat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:advcl 24 out out ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 grains grain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 blows blow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 straw straw NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 away away ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 34 nummod _ _ 34 go go NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sow** | present | a farmer | the grain | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent grain=Theme | | 2 | **grow** | present | the plants | | | | spring | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **cut** | present | a combine harvester | the stalks | | | summer | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset stalk=Product | | 4 | **beat out** | present | a combine harvester *not said here* | the grains | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location grain=Theme | | 5 | **blow away** | present | a combine harvester *not said here* | the straw | | | | in one go; away *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent straw=Patient in go=Topic | 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:2`. **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, 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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