--- title: So nothing is wasted: summer grass becomes winter food, winter muck… — A year on a farm: lambing, haymaking, harvest an… · tree and pragmatics description: So nothing is wasted: summer grass becomes winter food, winter muck becomes spring fertiliser, and the next year starts again. Who acts: summer grass, winter muck, next year. 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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 (summer grass, winter muck, next year), 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:7 # text = So nothing is wasted: summer grass becomes winter food, winter muck becomes spring fertiliser, and the next year starts again. # 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 ×1 1 So so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 wasted waste VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 6 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 xcomp _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 12 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 muck muck NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 15 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 fertiliser fertiliser NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 xcomp _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 starts start VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 23 again again ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 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 | **waste** | present · passive | | nothing | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **become** | present | summer grass | winter food | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **become** | present | winter muck | spring fertiliser | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **start** | present | the next year | | | | again | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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:7`. **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 ×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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