--- title: Farmers cut the pods, scoop out the beans, let them ferment (slowly… — Chocolate and sweets · tree and pragmatics description: Farmers cut the pods, scoop out the beans, let them ferment (slowly change and turn a little sour, helped by tiny living things) under leaves for several days and dry them in the sun before they are shipped. Who acts: Farmers. A sentence of the lesson «Chocolate and sweets» of the technology course --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/2-chocolate-and-sweets/7/) [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/) / [Technology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/) / [Chocolate and sweets](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/2-chocolate-and-sweets/) / 7 # Chocolate and sweets, sentence 7 Farmers cut the pods, scoop out the beans, let them ferment (slowly change and turn a little sour, helped by tiny living things) under leaves for several days and dry them in the sun before they are shipped. **Who acts:** Farmers · **What happens:** cut, scoop out, let, ferment, change, turn · **To what, where:** pods, beans, farmers, little sour, leaves, sun This is a sentence of the lesson «Chocolate and sweets» of the technology 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:technology:002-chocolate-and-sweets.lesson:7 # text = Farmers cut the pods, scoop out the beans, let them ferment (slowly change and turn a little sour, helped by tiny living things) under leaves for several days and dry them in the sun before they are shipped. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 002-chocolate-and-sweets.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Farmers farmer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 cut cut VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 pods pod NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 scoop scoop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 7 out out ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 beans bean NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 12 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 ferment ferment VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 14 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 15 slowly slowly ADV RB Degree=Pos 16 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:amod 16 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 turn turn VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:det 20 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 sour sour NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 helped help VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 advcl _ _ 24 by by ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 26 living living NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 28 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 29 under under ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 31 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 dry dry VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 36 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 40 before before SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 41 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj:pass _ _ 42 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 aux:pass _ _ 43 shipped ship VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 advcl _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cut** | past | Farmers | the pods | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pod=Product | | 2 | **scoop out** | infinitive | Farmers *not said here* | the beans | | | | | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bean=Theme | | 3 | **let** | infinitive | | farmers *= farmer* | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **ferment** | infinitive | farmers *= farmer* *not said here* | | | | | | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **change** | infinitive | farmers *= farmer* *not said here* | | | | | slowly *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **turn** | infinitive | farmers *= farmer* *not said here* | little sour | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sour=Theme | | 7 | **help** | participle | farmers *= farmer* *not said here* | | | leaves for several days | | by tiny living things | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **dry** | infinitive | | farmers *= farmer* | | the sun | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient they=Result | | 9 | **ship** | present · passive | | farmers *= farmer* | | | | | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:technology:002-chocolate-and-sweets.lesson:7`. **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): R5-strong ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [Chocolate and sweets, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/2-chocolate-and-sweets/6/) - next →: [Chocolate and sweets, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/2-chocolate-and-sweets/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/2-chocolate-and-sweets/)