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title: Think of a vegetable patch at school: once you plant beans you canno… — The first farms and towns · tree and pragmatics
description: Think of a vegetable patch at school: once you plant beans you cannot wander off, you have to stay, water them and guard them. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «The first farms and towns» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The first farms and towns, sentence 3

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Think of a vegetable patch at school: once you plant beans you cannot wander off, you have to stay, water them and guard them.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** think, plant, not wander off, have, stay, water · **To what, where:** beans · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The first farms and towns» of the history 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 (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:002-the-first-farms-and-towns.lesson:3
# text = Think of a vegetable patch at school: once you plant beans you cannot wander off, you have to stay, water them and guard them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 002-the-first-farms-and-towns.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	Think	think	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	vegetable	vegetable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	patch	patch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
9	once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	plant	plant	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
12	beans	bean	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	wander	wander	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:ccomp
17	off	off	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	water	water	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	guard	guard	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- 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 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of a vegetable patch at school | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **plant** | present | you | beans |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bean=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **wander off** | can | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **stay** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **water** | infinitive | you *not said here* | beans *= bean* |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Destination |
| 7 | **guard** | infinitive | you *not said here* | beans *= bean* |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary |

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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:history:002-the-first-farms-and-towns.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/).

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