--- title: Rice loves hot, wet river plains with flooded fields; wheat likes co… — Food and farming around the world · tree and pragmatics description: Rice loves hot, wet river plains with flooded fields; wheat likes cooler, drier lands; and where land is too dry or too cold to farm, people herd animals instead. Who acts: Rice, wheat, land, people. 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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 (Rice, wheat, land, people), 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:3 # text = Rice loves hot, wet river plains with flooded fields; wheat likes cooler, drier lands; and where land is too dry or too cold to farm, people herd animals instead. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Rice Rice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 loves love VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 plains plain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 flooded flood VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 amod _ _ 10 fields field NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 12 wheat wheat NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 likes like VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 14 cooler cool ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 17 amod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 drier dry ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 17 amod _ _ 17 lands land NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 20 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 24 advmod _ _ 21 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 too too ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 advcl _ _ 25 or or CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 too too ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 conj _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 farm farm VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:xcomp 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 32 herd herd VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 33 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 34 instead instead ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **love** | present | Rice | hot wet river plains | | | | with flooded fields | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer plain=Stimulus | | 2 | **flood** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **like** | present | wheat | cooler drier lands | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot land=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | land | | | | | dry *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | | land *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **farm** | to-infinitive | land *not said here* | | | | | | vn rear-26.2.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **herd** | present | people | animals | | | | instead *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent animal=Patient | 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:3`. **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/). - ← previous: [Food and farming around the world, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/26-food-and-farming-around-the-world/2/) - next →: [Food and farming around the world, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/26-food-and-farming-around-the-world/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/26-food-and-farming-around-the-world/)