From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread, sentence 13

Ploughing turns the soil and buries weeds, but many farmers now plough less to keep the soil, its worms and its microbes from drying and blowing away.

Who acts: Ploughing, many farmers · What happens: turn, bury, plough, keep, dry, blow away · To what, where: soil, weeds

This is a sentence of the lesson «From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread» of the biology 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 (Ploughing, many farmers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ploughing	plough	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	nsubj
2	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 soil	det
4	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 buries	cc
6	buries	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 turns	conj
7	weeds	weed	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 buries	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 plough	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 plough	cc
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 farmers	amod
11	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 plough	nsubj
12	now	now	ADV	_	13 plough	advmod
13	plough	plough	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 turns	conj
14	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 plough	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 keep	mark
16	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 plough	xcomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 soil	det
18	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 keep	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 worms	punct
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 worms	nmod:poss
21	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 soil	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 microbes	cc
23	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 microbes	nmod:poss
24	microbes	microbe	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 worms	conj
25	from	from	SCONJ	_	26 drying	mark
26	drying	dry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 keep	advcl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 blowing	cc
28	blowing	blow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 drying	conj
29	away	away	ADV	_	28 blowing	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 turns	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	Ploughing	the soil			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme soil=Result
2	bury	present	Ploughing not said here	weeds			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weed=Theme
3	plough	present	many farmers		now	less property	tree rules
4	keep	to-infinitive	many farmers not said here	the soil and farmer's worms and farmer's microbes			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Theme
5	dry	gerund	many farmers not said here				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	blow away	gerund	many farmers not said here			away property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

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, 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:biology:286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread.lesson:13.

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 ×2, 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.

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