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title: Farmers have other helpers too: ladybirds that eat aphids and barn o… — Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our… · tree and pragmatics
description: Farmers have other helpers too: ladybirds that eat aphids and barn owls that hunt mice. Who acts: Farmers, ladybirds, barn owls. A sentence of the lesson «Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our food» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our food, sentence 5

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Farmers have other helpers too: ladybirds that eat aphids and barn owls that hunt mice.

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**Who acts:** Farmers, ladybirds, barn owls · **What happens:** have, eat, hunt · **To what, where:** other helpers, aphids, mice

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our food» 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 (Farmers, ladybirds, barn owls), 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:5
# text = Farmers have other helpers too: ladybirds that eat aphids and barn owls that hunt mice.
# 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): no change
1	Farmers	farmer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	helpers	helper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	ladybirds	ladybird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	appos	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	aphids	aphid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	barn	barn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	owls	owl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	hunt	hunt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	.	.	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 | **have** | present | Farmers | other helpers |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent helper=Patient |
| 2 | **eat** | present | ladybirds and barn owls | aphids |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aphid=Patient |
| 3 | **hunt** | present | barn owls | mice |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme |

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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:291-bees-worms-and-soil-the-hidden-helpers-of-our-food.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): 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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