--- title: Farmers spread manure and slurry, a runny mix of muck and water, on… — A year on a farm: lambing, haymaking, harvest an… · tree and pragmatics description: Farmers spread manure and slurry, a runny mix of muck and water, on fields as fertiliser, but too much washed into rivers harms fish, so there are rules about when to spread it. Who acts: Farmers, rules. 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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 (Farmers, rules), 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:18 # text = Farmers spread manure and slurry, a runny mix of muck and water, on fields as fertiliser, but too much washed into rivers harms fish, so there are rules about when to spread 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): R6-punct-agree ×2 1 Farmers farmer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 spread spread VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 manure manure NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 slurry slurry NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 runny runny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 mix mix NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 muck muck NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 fields field NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 17 as as ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 fertiliser fertiliser NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 too too ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 much much ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 washed wash VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 nsubj _ _ 24 into into ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 rivers river NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 26 harms harm VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 27 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 so so ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 30 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 31 expl _ _ 31 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 32 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 33 about about SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 34 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 36 advmod _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 spread spread VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 acl _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spread** | present | Farmers | manure and slurry | | fields | | as fertiliser | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent manure=Theme on field=Destination | | 2 | **wash** | participle | | | | rivers | | | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **harm** | present | | fish | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fish=Experiencer | | 4 | **does** | present | rules | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **spread** | to-infinitive | rules *not said here* | farmer | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=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:18`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×2. **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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