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title: Every step depends on soil, weather and peace: a wet harvest, a drou… — From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread · tree and pragmatics
description: Every step depends on soil, weather and peace: a wet harvest, a drought or a war that blocks the ships can change the price of bread on the other side of the world. Who acts: step, war, wet harvest. A sentence of the lesson «From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread» of the biology course of Mova'
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# From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread, sentence 5

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Every step depends on soil, weather and peace: a wet harvest, a drought or a war that blocks the ships can change the price of bread on the other side of the world.

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**Who acts:** step, war, wet harvest · **What happens:** depend, block, change · **To what, where:** ships, price, other side

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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 (step, war, wet harvest), 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:5
# text = Every step depends on soil, weather and peace: a wet harvest, a drought or a war that blocks the ships can change the price of bread on the other side of the world.
# 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 ×1
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	depends	depend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:appos
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	harvest	harvest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	drought	drought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	blocks	block	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **depend** | present | every step |  |  |  |  | on soil and weather and peace | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on soil=Theme |
| 2 | **block** | present | a war | the ships |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer ship=Theme |
| 3 | **change** | can | a wet harvest and a drought or a war | the price of bread |  | the other side of the world |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Patient |

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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:5`.

**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 ×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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