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title: Bread comes from wheat, a grass whose seeds are ground into flour; w… — From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread · tree and pragmatics
description: Bread comes from wheat, a grass whose seeds are ground into flour; wheat was first farmed about 10,000 years ago in the Middle East. Who acts: Bread. A sentence of the lesson «From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the
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# From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread, sentence 6

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Bread comes from wheat, a grass whose seeds are ground into flour; wheat was first farmed about 10,000 years ago in the Middle East.

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**Who acts:** Bread · **What happens:** come, grind, farm · **To what, where:** wheat, seeds, flour, Middle East

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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 (Bread), 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:6
# text = Bread comes from wheat, a grass whose seeds are ground into flour; wheat was first farmed about 10,000 years ago in the Middle East.
# 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	Bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
8	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	ground	grind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	flour	flour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
17	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	18	advmod	_	_
18	farmed	farm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
19	about	about	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	10,000	10000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Middle	Middle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	_
26	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | Bread |  |  | wheat |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from wheat=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **grind** | present · passive |  | seeds |  | flour |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into flour=Product |
| 3 | **farm** | past · passive |  | wheat |  | the Middle East |  | ago, first *property* | vn rear-26.2.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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**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.

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