--- title: Straw is the dry stalks left after grain is harvested and is used fo… — A year on a farm: lambing, haymaking, harvest an… · tree and pragmatics description: Straw is the dry stalks left after grain is harvested and is used for bedding, while hay is dried grass used as food; straw has very little food value. Who acts: Straw, hay. 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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 (Straw, hay), 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:14 # text = Straw is the dry stalks left after grain is harvested and is used for bedding, while hay is dried grass used as food; straw has very little food value. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Straw straw NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 stalks stalk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 after after SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 8 grain grain NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 harvested harvest VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 advcl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 conj _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 bedding bedding NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 while while SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 18 hay hay NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 20 dried dry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 amod _ _ 21 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 22 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 acl _ _ 23 as as ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 straw straw NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 28 very very ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 30 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 value value NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Straw | the dry stalks | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **leave** | participle | | the dry stalks *not said here* | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **harvest** | present · passive | | grain | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **use** | present · passive | | | | | | for bedding | vn eat-39.1 «NP V» | | 5 | **dry** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **is a** | present | hay | dried grass | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **use** | participle | | dried grass *not said here* | | | | as food | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **have** | present | straw | little food value | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent value=Patient | 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:14`. **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, 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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