--- title: In the 1930s the ploughed prairies of America dried out and the soil… — Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our… · tree and pragmatics description: In the 1930s the ploughed prairies of America dried out and the soil blew away in huge dust storms called the Dust Bowl; many families lost their farms, and farmers learned to plant trees and keep soil covered. Who acts: ploughed prairies, soil, many families, farmers. 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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 (ploughed prairies, soil, many families, farmers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:291-bees-worms-and-soil-the-hidden-helpers-of-our-food.lesson:20 # text = In the 1930s the ploughed prairies of America dried out and the soil blew away in huge dust storms called the Dust Bowl; many families lost their farms, and farmers learned to plant trees and keep soil covered. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 291-bees-worms-and-soil-the-hidden-helpers-of-our-food.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 1930s 1930 NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:obl 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 ploughed plough VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 amod _ _ 6 prairies prairie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 America America PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 dried dry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 10 out out ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 blew blow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 away away ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 dust dust NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 storms storm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 20 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 Dust Dust PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 Bowl Bowl PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 25 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 lost lose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 28 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 farms farm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 farmers farmer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 learned learn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 plant plant VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 36 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 conj _ _ 39 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 40 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=38:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 41 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **plough** | participle | | | | | | | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **dry out** | past | the ploughed prairies of America | | | the 1930s | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **blow away** | past | the soil | | | huge dust storms | | away *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **call** | participle | | huge dust storms *not said here* | the Dust Bowl | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bowl=Recipient | | 5 | **lose** | past | many families | prairies's farms | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farm=Eventuality | | 6 | **learn** | past | farmers | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **plant** | to-infinitive | farmers *not said here* | trees | | | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient | | 8 | **keep** | infinitive | farmers *not said here* | soil | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **cover** | participle | soil *not said here* | | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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:291-bees-worms-and-soil-the-hidden-helpers-of-our-food.lesson:20`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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