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title: When farms grew more food than the farmers needed, not everyone had… — The first farms and towns · tree and pragmatics
description: When farms grew more food than the farmers needed, not everyone had to farm. Who acts: farms, farmers, everyone. 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 clause.
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# The first farms and towns, sentence 5

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When farms grew more food than the farmers needed, not everyone had to farm.

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**Who acts:** farms, farmers, everyone · **What happens:** grow, need, have, farm · **To what, where:** more food

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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 (farms, farmers, everyone), 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:5
# text = When farms grew more food than the farmers needed, not everyone had to farm.
# 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): no change
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	farms	farm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	farmers	farmer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	needed	need	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	13	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	farm	farm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | farms | more food |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location food=Theme |
| 2 | **need** | past | the farmers |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **have** | past | everyone |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **farm** | to-infinitive | everyone *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn rear-26.2.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:5`.

**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): no change. **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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