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title: Windmills and watermills once ground grain between big stones; today… — From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread · tree and pragmatics
description: Windmills and watermills once ground grain between big stones; today most flour is made in huge roller mills. Who acts: Windmills. 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 pragmatics of ever
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# From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread, sentence 8

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Windmills and watermills once ground grain between big stones; today most flour is made in huge roller mills.

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**Who acts:** Windmills · **What happens:** grind, make · **To what, where:** grain, most flour, huge roller mills

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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 (Windmills), 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:8
# text = Windmills and watermills once ground grain between big stones; today most flour is made in huge roller mills.
# 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): no change
1	Windmills	windmill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	watermills	watermill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	once	once	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	ground	grind	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
6	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	between	between	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	amod	_	_
13	flour	flour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	roller	roller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	mills	mill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	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 | **grind** | past | Windmills and watermills | grain |  |  |  | between big stones; once *property* | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument grain=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | present · passive |  | most flour |  | huge roller mills | today |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

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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:8`.

**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): no change. **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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