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title: Look at your cheese sandwich: the bread was wheat that grew in sunsh… — Food chains: sun, plants, plant-eaters, meat-eat… · tree and pragmatics
description: Look at your cheese sandwich: the bread was wheat that grew in sunshine, the cheese came from milk from a cow that ate grass, so you are at the end of food chains too. Who acts: you, bread, wheat, cheese. A sentence of the lesson «Food chains: sun, plants, plant-eaters, meat-eaters» of the biology c
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# Food chains: sun, plants, plant-eaters, meat-eaters, sentence 2

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Look at your cheese sandwich: the bread was wheat that grew in sunshine, the cheese came from milk from a cow that ate grass, so you are at the end of food chains too.

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**Who acts:** you, bread, wheat, cheese, cow · **What happens:** look, be, grow, come, eat · **To what, where:** wheat, sunshine, milk, grass, end

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Food chains: sun, plants, plant-eaters, meat-eaters» 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 (you, bread, wheat, cheese), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:046-food-chains.lesson:2
# text = Look at your cheese sandwich: the bread was wheat that grew in sunshine, the cheese came from milk from a cow that ate grass, so you are at the end of food chains too.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 046-food-chains.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	sandwich	sandwich	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
30	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:obl
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	chains	chain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	_
37	too	too	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at your cheese sandwich | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sandwich=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the bread | wheat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **grow** | past | wheat |  |  | sunshine |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sunshine=Location |
| 4 | **come** | past | the cheese |  |  | milk |  | from a cow | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from milk=Initial\_Location from cow=Destination |
| 5 | **eat** | past | a cow | grass |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient |
| 6 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  | at the end | of food chains | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:046-food-chains.lesson:2`.

**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): R7-rel-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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