From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread, sentence 18

In the 1840s a plant disease destroyed Ireland's potatoes, the main food of the poor; about a million people died and about a million more left the country.

Who acts: plant disease, million people, million · What happens: destroy, die, leave · To what, where: potatoes, 1840s, country

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 (plant disease, million people, million), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 1840s	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 1840s	det
3	1840s	1840	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	7 destroyed	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 disease	det
5	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 disease	compound
6	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 destroyed	nsubj
7	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 potatoes	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Ireland	case
10	potatoes	potato	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 destroyed	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 food	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 food	det
13	main	main	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 food	amod
14	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 potatoes	appos
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 poor	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 poor	det
17	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 food	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 destroyed	punct
19	about	about	ADV	_	21 million	advmod
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 million	det
21	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 people	nummod
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 died	nsubj
23	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 destroyed	parataxis
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 left	cc
25	about	about	ADV	_	27 million	advmod
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 million	det
27	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 left	nsubj
28	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 million	advmod
29	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 died	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 country	det
31	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 left	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 destroyed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	destroy	past	a plant disease	Ireland's potatoes	the 1840s	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent potato=Patient
2	die	past	million people			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	leave	past	a million	the country		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=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, 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:18.

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 ×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.

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