From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread, sentence 6
Bread comes from wheat, a grass whose seeds are ground into flour; wheat was first farmed about 10,000 years ago in the Middle East.
Who acts: Bread · What happens: come, grind, farm · To what, where: wheat, seeds, flour, Middle East
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 (Bread), 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 | Bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 comes | nsubj |
| 2 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 wheat | case |
| 4 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 comes | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 grass | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 grass | det |
| 7 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wheat | appos |
| 8 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 9 seeds | nmod:poss |
| 9 | seeds | seed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 ground | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 ground | aux:pass |
| 11 | ground | grind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 grass | acl:relcl |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 flour | case |
| 13 | flour | flour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ground | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 farmed | punct |
| 15 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 farmed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 farmed | aux:pass |
| 17 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 farmed | advmod |
| 18 | farmed | farm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 comes | parataxis |
| 19 | about | about | ADV | _ | 20 10,000 | advmod |
| 20 | 10,000 | 10000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 years | nummod |
| 21 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 18 farmed | advmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 East | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 East | det |
| 25 | Middle | Middle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 East | flat |
| 26 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 farmed | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | Bread | wheat | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from wheat=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | grind | present · passive | seeds | flour | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into flour=Product | ||||
| 3 | farm | past · passive | wheat | the Middle East | ago, first property | vn rear-26.2.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:6.
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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