--- title: Today machines, fertilisers and better seeds let a few farmers feed… — Food and farming around the world · tree and pragmatics description: Today machines, fertilisers and better seeds let a few farmers feed many, but farming still drinks about 70 percent of the fresh water people take. Who acts: Today machines, few farmers, farming, people. A sentence of the lesson «Food and farming around the world» of the geography course of Mova's p --- [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/8/) [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/) / 8 # Food and farming around the world, sentence 8 Today machines, fertilisers and better seeds let a few farmers feed many, but farming still drinks about 70 percent of the fresh water people take. **Who acts:** Today machines, few farmers, farming, people · **What happens:** let, feed, drink, take · **To what, where:** many, 70 percent, fresh water 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, few farmers, farming, 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:8 # text = Today machines, fertilisers and better seeds let a few farmers feed many, but farming still drinks about 70 percent of the fresh water people take. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 machines machine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 fertilisers fertiliser NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 7 amod _ _ 7 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 8 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:VerbForm=Inf 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 farmers farmer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 feed feed VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 farming farming NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 17 still still ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 drinks drink VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 19 about about ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 70 70 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 percent percent NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 26 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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 better seeds | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **feed** | infinitive | a few farmers | many | | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Recipient | | 3 | **drink** | present | farming | 70 percent of the fresh water | | | still | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent percent=Patient | | 4 | **take** | present | people | the fresh water *not said here* | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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:8`. **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, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Food and farming around the world, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/26-food-and-farming-around-the-world/7/) - next →: [Food and farming around the world, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/26-food-and-farming-around-the-world/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/26-food-and-farming-around-the-world/)