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title: Farmers add nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium to soil as fertiliser… — Soil · tree and pragmatics
description: Farmers add nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium to soil as fertiliser to grow more food. Who acts: Farmers. A sentence of the lesson «Soil» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Soil, sentence 15

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Farmers add nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium to soil as fertiliser to grow more food.

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**Who acts:** Farmers · **What happens:** add, grow · **To what, where:** nitrogen, more food

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Soil» 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 (Farmers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:056-soil.lesson:15
# text = Farmers add nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium to soil as fertiliser to grow more food.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 056-soil.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Farmers	farmer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	add	add	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	nitrogen	nitrogen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	phosphorus	phosphorus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	potassium	potassium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:case|HaikuPos=ADP:TO:_
9	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	fertiliser	fertiliser	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
14	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
15	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	.	.	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 | **add** *speech: assert* | present | Farmers | nitrogen and phosphorus and potassium |  |  |  | to soil; as fertiliser | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent nitrogen=Patient to soil=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **grow** | to-infinitive | Farmers *not said here* | more food |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location food=Theme |

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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:056-soil.lesson:15`.

**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): R8-pos-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/).

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