--- title: Farmers plough the soil, sow seeds, water and feed the crops, protec… — Farms and where our food comes from · tree and pragmatics description: Farmers plough the soil, sow seeds, water and feed the crops, protect them from pests and harvest them when they are ripe; changing the crop in a field each year keeps the soil healthy. Who acts: Farmers, crops, year. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Farmers, crops, year), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:080-farms-and-our-food.lesson:2 # text = Farmers plough the soil, sow seeds, water and feed the crops, protect them from pests and harvest them when they are ripe; changing the crop in a field each year keeps the soil healthy. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 080-farms-and-our-food.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Farmers farmer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 plough plough VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct 6 sow sow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 7 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 water water VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=9:cc 11 feed feed VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=9:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 crops crop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct 15 protect protect VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 16 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 pests pest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 harvest harvest VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 21 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 25 advmod _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 ripe ripe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 advcl _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 changing change VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 35 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:advcl 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 crop crop NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 33 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 34 det _ _ 34 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 healthy healthy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:amod 39 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **plough** | present | Farmers | the soil | | | | | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent soil=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **sow** | present | Farmers *not said here* | seeds | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent seed=Theme | | 3 | **water** | present | Farmers *not said here* | | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **feed** | present | Farmers *not said here* | the crops | | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crop=Recipient | | 5 | **protect** | present | Farmers *not said here* | crops *= crop* | | | | from pests | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary from pest=Theme | | 6 | **harvest** | present | Farmers *not said here* | crops *= crop* | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **is** | present | crops *= crop* | | | | | ripe *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **change** | gerund | | the crop | | a field | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crop=Patient | | 9 | **keep** | present | each year | the soil | | | | healthy *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=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:world:080-farms-and-our-food.lesson:2`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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: [Farms and where our food comes from, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/80-farms-and-our-food/0/) - next →: [Farms and where our food comes from, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/80-farms-and-our-food/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/80-farms-and-our-food/)