From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread, sentence 5

Every step depends on soil, weather and peace: a wet harvest, a drought or a war that blocks the ships can change the price of bread on the other side of the world.

Who acts: step, war, wet harvest · What happens: depend, block, change · To what, where: ships, price, other side

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 (step, war, wet harvest), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 step	det
2	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 depends	nsubj
3	depends	depend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 soil	case
5	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 depends	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 weather	punct
7	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 soil	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 peace	cc
9	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 weather	conj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 change	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 harvest	det
12	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 harvest	amod
13	harvest	harvest	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 change	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 drought	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 drought	det
16	drought	drought	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 harvest	conj
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 war	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 war	det
19	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 harvest	conj
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 blocks	nsubj
21	blocks	block	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 war	acl:relcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ships	det
23	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 blocks	obj
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 change	aux
25	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 depends	parataxis
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 price	det
27	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 change	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 bread	case
29	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 price	nmod
30	on	on	ADP	_	33 side	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 side	det
32	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 side	amod
33	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 change	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 world	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 world	det
36	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 side	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 depends	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	depend	present	every step			on soil and weather and peace	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on soil=Theme
2	block	present	a war	the ships			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer ship=Theme
3	change	can	a wet harvest and a drought or a war	the price of bread	the other side of the world		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=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:5.

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.

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