From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread, sentence 17

Rain at harvest can spoil grain, frost can kill young plants and a drought can ruin a whole year's work, so farmers watch the weather closely.

Who acts: Rain, frost, drought, farmers, whole year · What happens: spoil, kill, ruin, watch, work · To what, where: grain, young plants, work, weather

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 (Rain, frost, drought, 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	Rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spoil	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 harvest	case
3	harvest	harvest	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Rain	nmod
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 spoil	aux
5	spoil	spoil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spoil	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 kill	punct
8	frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kill	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 kill	aux
10	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 spoil	parataxis
11	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 plants	amod
12	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 kill	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 ruin	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 drought	det
15	drought	drought	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ruin	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 ruin	aux
17	ruin	ruin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 kill	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 year	det
19	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 year	amod
20	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 work	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 year	case
22	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ruin	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 watch	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	26 watch	advmod
25	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 watch	nsubj
26	watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 ruin	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 weather	det
28	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 watch	obj
29	closely	closely	ADV	_	26 watch	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 spoil	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	spoil	can	Rain at harvest	grain		tree rules
2	kill	can	frost	young plants		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Theme
3	ruin	can	a drought	a whole year's work		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Patient
4	watch	present	farmers	the weather	closely property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weather=Theme
5	work		a whole year			nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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:17.

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.

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