--- title: A combine harvester cuts the wheat, beats out the grains and blows a… — From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread · tree and pragmatics description: A combine harvester cuts the wheat, beats out the grains and blows away the straw at once, doing work that once took dozens of people with sickles. Who acts: combine harvester, work. 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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 (combine harvester, work), 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:7 # text = A combine harvester cuts the wheat, beats out the grains and blows away the straw at once, doing work that once took dozens of people with sickles. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 combine combine NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 harvester harvester NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 cuts cut VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 wheat wheat NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 beats beat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 out out ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 grains grain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 blows blow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=8:conj 14 away away ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 straw straw NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 once once ADV RB _ 8 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 doing do VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 parataxis _ _ 21 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 22 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 23 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 24 advmod _ _ 24 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 25 dozens dozen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 28 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 sickles sickle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cut** | present | a combine harvester | the wheat | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wheat=Product | | 2 | **beat out** | present | a combine harvester *not said here* | the grains | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location grain=Theme | | 3 | **blow away** | present | a combine harvester *not said here* | the straw | | | | away *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent straw=Patient | | 4 | **do** | gerund | | work | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | | 5 | **take** | past | work | dozens of people with sickles | | | | once *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dozen=Theme | 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:7`. **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): R3-conj-first ×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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