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title: Rice, wheat and maize are the most important crops in the world. — Farms and where our food comes from · tree and pragmatics
description: Rice, wheat and maize are the most important crops in the world. Who acts: Rice. A sentence of the lesson «Farms and where our food comes from» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Farms and where our food comes from, sentence 8

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Rice, wheat and maize are the most important crops in the world.

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**Who acts:** Rice · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** important crops, world

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Farms and where our food comes from» of the world 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 (Rice), 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:8
# text = Rice, wheat and maize are the most important crops in the world.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Rice	Rice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:appos
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	maize	maize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	9	advmod	_	_
9	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	crops	crop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **is a** | present | Rice and wheat and maize | the important crops |  | the world |  |  | tree rules |

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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:world:080-farms-and-our-food.lesson:8`.

**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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