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title: In the USA only about 2 people in 100 work on farms, but with machin… — Cities then and now: the biggest cities of every… · tree and pragmatics
description: In the USA only about 2 people in 100 work on farms, but with machines they grow food for many millions of city people. Who acts: 2 people, people. A sentence of the lesson «Cities then and now: the biggest cities of every age and of today» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dep
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# Cities then and now: the biggest cities of every age and of today, sentence 15

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In the USA only about 2 people in 100 work on farms, but with machines they grow food for many millions of city people.

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**Who acts:** 2 people, people · **What happens:** work, grow · **To what, where:** food

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cities then and now: the biggest cities of every age and of today» 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 (2 people, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:074-the-biggest-cities-of-every-age-and-of-today.lesson:15
# text = In the USA only about 2 people in 100 work on farms, but with machines they grow food for many millions of city people.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 074-the-biggest-cities-of-every-age-and-of-today.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	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	USA	USA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	about	about	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nmod	_	_
10	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	farms	farm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	machines	machine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
19	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **work** | present | 2 people in 100 |  |  |  |  | on farms; in the USA | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in usa=Theme |
| 2 | **grow** | present | people | food |  |  |  | with machines; for many millions of city people | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent food=Material for million=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:074-the-biggest-cities-of-every-age-and-of-today.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): 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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