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title: The grain goes to a mill to become flour, the baker mixes the flour… — From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread · tree and pragmatics
description: The grain goes to a mill to become flour, the baker mixes the flour with water and yeast, and tiny living yeast cells breathe out gas that puffs the dough up. Who acts: grain, baker, tiny yeast cells, gas. A sentence of the lesson «From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread» of the biology course o
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# From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread, sentence 3

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The grain goes to a mill to become flour, the baker mixes the flour with water and yeast, and tiny living yeast cells breathe out gas that puffs the dough up.

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**Who acts:** grain, baker, tiny yeast cells, gas · **What happens:** go, become, mix, breathe out, puff up · **To what, where:** mill, flour, gas, dough

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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 (grain, baker, tiny yeast cells, gas), 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:3
# text = The grain goes to a mill to become flour, the baker mixes the flour with water and yeast, and tiny living yeast cells breathe out gas that puffs the dough up.
# 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 ×5, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:acl
9	flour	flour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	xcomp	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:det
12	baker	baker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:compound
13	mixes	mix	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	flour	flour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	yeast	yeast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
23	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	yeast	yeast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	breathe	breathe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
27	out	out	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
30	puffs	puff	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	dough	dough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	up	up	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:compound:prt
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | the grain |  |  | a mill |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to mill=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **become** | to-infinitive | the grain *not said here* | flour |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **mix** | present | the baker | the flour |  |  |  | with water and yeast | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent flour=Patient with water=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **breathe out** | present | tiny yeast cells | gas |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gas=Theme |
| 5 | **puff up** | present | gas | the dough |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dough=Source |

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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:3`.

**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 ×5, 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.

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

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