From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread, sentence 2
A farmer sows the grain, the plants grow all spring, and in summer a combine harvester cuts the stalks, beats out the grains and blows the straw away in one go.
Who acts: farmer, plants, combine harvester · What happens: sow, grow, cut, beat out, blow away · To what, where: grain, stalks, grains, straw
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 (farmer, plants, combine harvester), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 farmer | det |
| 2 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sows | nsubj |
| 3 | sows | sow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 grain | det |
| 5 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sows | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 grow | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 plants | det |
| 8 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 grow | nsubj |
| 9 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sows | conj |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 spring | det |
| 11 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grow | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 cuts | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 cuts | cc |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 summer | case |
| 15 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cuts | obl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 harvester | det |
| 17 | combine | combine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 harvester | compound |
| 18 | harvester | harvester | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cuts | nsubj |
| 19 | cuts | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sows | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 stalks | det |
| 21 | stalks | stalk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 cuts | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 beats | punct |
| 23 | beats | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 cuts | conj |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 beats | compound:prt |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 grains | det |
| 26 | grains | grain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 beats | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 blows | cc |
| 28 | blows | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 beats | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 straw | det |
| 30 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 blows | obj |
| 31 | away | away | ADV | _ | 28 blows | advmod |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 go | case |
| 33 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 go | nummod |
| 34 | go | go | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 blows | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sows | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sow | present | a farmer | the grain | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent grain=Theme | ||||
| 2 | grow | present | the plants | spring | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cut | present | a combine harvester | the stalks | summer | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset stalk=Product | |||
| 4 | beat out | present | a combine harvester not said here | the grains | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location grain=Theme | ||||
| 5 | blow away | present | a combine harvester not said here | the straw | in one go; away property | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent straw=Patient in go=Topic |
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: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): R5-strong ×1, 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.
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