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title: On the steppe, dry grassland too dry for crops in many places, and i… — Food and farming around the world · tree and pragmatics
description: On the steppe, dry grassland too dry for crops in many places, and in deserts many peoples lived as nomadic herders, moving with their animals to find fresh grass and water. Who acts: many peoples. A sentence of the lesson «Food and farming around the world» of the geography course of Mova's primary
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# Food and farming around the world, sentence 17

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On the steppe, dry grassland too dry for crops in many places, and in deserts many peoples lived as nomadic herders, moving with their animals to find fresh grass and water.

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**Who acts:** many peoples · **What happens:** live, move, find · **To what, where:** deserts, fresh grass

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Food and farming around the world» of the geography 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 (many peoples), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:026-food-and-farming-around-the-world.lesson:17
# text = On the steppe, dry grassland too dry for crops in many places, and in deserts many peoples lived as nomadic herders, moving with their animals to find fresh grass and water.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 026-food-and-farming-around-the-world.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): no change
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	steppe	steppe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	grassland	grassland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	too	too	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	crops	crop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	deserts	desert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
18	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	nomadic	nomadic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	herders	herder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
31	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **live** | past | many peoples |  |  | deserts |  | as nomadic herders | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in desert=Location |
| 2 | **move** | gerund | many peoples *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with people's animals | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | to-infinitive | many peoples *not said here* | fresh grass and water |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Topic |

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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:geography:026-food-and-farming-around-the-world.lesson:17`.

**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): no change. **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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