--- title: Today machines, fertilisers and new seed varieties let far fewer far… — Food and farming around the world · tree and pragmatics description: Today machines, fertilisers and new seed varieties let far fewer farmers grow much more food than in the past, and only about 1 percent of Britons now work on the land. Who acts: Today machines, fewer farmers, 1 percent. A sentence of the lesson «Food and farming around the world» of the geography c --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/26-food-and-farming-around-the-world/19/) [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/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/) / [Food and farming around the world](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/26-food-and-farming-around-the-world/) / 19 # Food and farming around the world, sentence 19 Today machines, fertilisers and new seed varieties let far fewer farmers grow much more food than in the past, and only about 1 percent of Britons now work on the land. **Who acts:** Today machines, fewer farmers, 1 percent · **What happens:** let, grow, work · **To what, where:** more food 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 (Today machines, fewer farmers, 1 percent), 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:19 # text = Today machines, fertilisers and new seed varieties let far fewer farmers grow much more food than in the past, and only about 1 percent of Britons now work on the land. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 machines machine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 fertilisers fertiliser NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 6 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:amod 7 seed seed NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 varieties variety NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 9 let let VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 11 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:advmod 11 fewer few ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 amod _ _ 12 farmers farmer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 14 much much ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 16 amod _ _ 16 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 than than ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 past past NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 23 only only ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 24 about about ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 26 percent percent NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 Britons briton PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 29 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 30 advmod _ _ 30 work work VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 31 on on ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | present | Today machines and fertilisers and new seed varieties | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **grow** | infinitive | fewer farmers | more food | | | | than the past | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location food=Theme | | 3 | **work** | present | 1 percent of Britons | | | | now | on the land | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on land=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:geography:026-food-and-farming-around-the-world.lesson:19`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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