--- title: Silage is grass wrapped up airtight so bacteria turn its sugars into… — A year on a farm: lambing, haymaking, harvest an… · tree and pragmatics description: Silage is grass wrapped up airtight so bacteria turn its sugars into acid and pickle it, keeping it fresh for months, and cows love it. Who acts: Silage, bacteria, cows. 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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 (Silage, bacteria, cows), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:349-a-year-on-a-farm-lambing-haymaking-harvest-and-winter-feeding.lesson:13 # text = Silage is grass wrapped up airtight so bacteria turn its sugars into acid and pickle it, keeping it fresh for months, and cows love it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 349-a-year-on-a-farm-lambing-haymaking-harvest-and-winter-feeding.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Silage silage NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 wrapped wrap VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 5 up up ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 6 airtight airtight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 7 so so ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 8 bacteria bacterium NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 9 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 10 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 sugars sugar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 into into ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 acid acid NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=13:cc 15 pickle pickle NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:conj 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obj 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 keeping keep VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 advcl _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:obl 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 cows cow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 love love VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Silage | grass | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **wrap up** | participle | | grass *not said here* | | | | airtight *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **turn** | infinitive | bacteria | grass's sugars | | acid | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent sugar=Theme into acid=Trajectory | | 4 | **keep** | gerund | bacteria *not said here* | grass | | | month | fresh *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 5 | **love** | present | cows | grass | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | 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:349-a-year-on-a-farm-lambing-haymaking-harvest-and-winter-feeding.lesson:13`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-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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