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title: Farming uses about 70 percent of all the fresh water people take fro… — Food and farming around the world · tree and pragmatics
description: Farming uses about 70 percent of all the fresh water people take from rivers, lakes and underground; bringing water to fields is called irrigation, and in deserts, with too little rain, crops cannot grow without it. Who acts: Farming, water people, bringing, crops. A sentence of the lesson «Food and
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# Food and farming around the world, sentence 20

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Farming uses about 70 percent of all the fresh water people take from rivers, lakes and underground; bringing water to fields is called irrigation, and in deserts, with too little rain, crops cannot grow without it.

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**Who acts:** Farming, water people, bringing, crops · **What happens:** use, take, bring, call, not grow · **To what, where:** 70 percent, rivers, water, fields, irrigation, deserts · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Farming, water people, bringing, crops), 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:20
# text = Farming uses about 70 percent of all the fresh water people take from rivers, lakes and underground; bringing water to fields is called irrigation, and in deserts, with too little rain, crops cannot grow without it.
# 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 ×1
1	Farming	farming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	70	70	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	percent	percent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	all	all	PRON	DT	PronType=Tot	5	nmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:amod
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	lakes	lake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	underground	underground	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
20	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	csubj:pass	_	_
21	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
26	irrigation	irrigation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	xcomp	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	deserts	desert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	too	too	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
37	crops	crop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nsubj	_	_
38	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
39	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	40	advmod	_	_
40	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
41	without	without	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obl	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **use** | present | Farming | 70 percent of all |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent percent=Patient |
| 2 | **take** | present | the water people |  |  | rivers and lakes |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from river=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **bring** | gerund |  | water |  | fields |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme to field=Destination |
| 4 | **call** *speech: assert* | present · passive | bringing | irrigation |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» |
| 5 | **not** **grow** | can | crops |  |  | deserts with little rain |  | without percent | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in desert=Location |

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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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**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 ×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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