--- title: In autumn farmers plough and sow winter wheat or barley, and gulls a… — A year on a farm: lambing, haymaking, harvest an… · tree and pragmatics description: In autumn farmers plough and sow winter wheat or barley, and gulls and rooks follow the plough to snatch worms and grubs. Who acts: farmers, gulls. A sentence of the lesson «A year on a farm: lambing, haymaking, harvest and winter feeding» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depe --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/349-a-year-on-a-farm-lambing-haymaking-harvest-and-winter-feeding/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [A year on a farm: lambing, haymaking,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/349-a-year-on-a-farm-lambing-haymaking-harvest-and-winter-feeding/) / 15 # A year on a farm: lambing, haymaking, harvest and winter feeding, sentence 15 In autumn farmers plough and sow winter wheat or barley, and gulls and rooks follow the plough to snatch worms and grubs. **Who acts:** farmers, gulls · **What happens:** plough, sow, follow, snatch · **To what, where:** winter wheat, plough, worms This is a sentence of the lesson «A year on a farm: lambing, haymaking, harvest and winter feeding» 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, gulls), 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:15 # text = In autumn farmers plough and sow winter wheat or barley, and gulls and rooks follow the plough to snatch worms and grubs. # 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 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 autumn autumn NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 3 farmers farmer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 plough plough VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 sow sow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 7 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 wheat wheat NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 barley barley NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 gulls gull NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 rooks rook NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 16 follow follow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 plough plough NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 snatch snatch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:advcl 21 worms worm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 grubs grub NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **plough** | present | farmers | | | | autumn | | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **sow** | present | farmers *not said here* | winter wheat or barley | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wheat=Theme | | 3 | **follow** | present | gulls and rooks | the plough | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plough=Theme | | 4 | **snatch** | to-infinitive | gulls and rooks *not said here* | worms and grubs | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worm=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:349-a-year-on-a-farm-lambing-haymaking-harvest-and-winter-feeding.lesson:15`. **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. **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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