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title: When people forget these helpers, things go wrong, as in the 1930s D… — Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our… · tree and pragmatics
description: When people forget these helpers, things go wrong, as in the 1930s Dust Bowl, when bare ploughed soil simply blew away. Who acts: people, things, bare ploughed soil. 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 it
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# Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our food, sentence 6

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When people forget these helpers, things go wrong, as in the 1930s Dust Bowl, when bare ploughed soil simply blew away.

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**Who acts:** people, things, bare ploughed soil · **What happens:** forget, go, plough, blow away · **To what, where:** helpers

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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 (people, things, bare ploughed soil), 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:6
# text = When people forget these helpers, things go wrong, as in the 1930s Dust Bowl, when bare ploughed soil simply blew away.
# 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	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	forget	forget	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
4	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	helpers	helper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	1930s	1930	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
15	Dust	Dust	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Bowl	Bowl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
19	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	ploughed	plough	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
21	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
24	away	away	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forget** | present | people | this helpers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | present | things |  |  |  |  | as the 1930s; wrong *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **plough** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **blow away** | past | bare ploughed soil |  |  |  |  | away, simply *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=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): 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.

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