From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread, sentence 7

A combine harvester cuts the wheat, beats out the grains and blows away the straw at once, doing work that once took dozens of people with sickles.

Who acts: combine harvester, work · What happens: cut, beat out, blow away, do, take · To what, where: wheat, grains, straw, work, dozens

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 (combine harvester, work), 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	3 harvester	det
2	combine	combine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 harvester	compound
3	harvester	harvester	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cuts	nsubj
4	cuts	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wheat	det
6	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cuts	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 beats	punct
8	beats	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cuts	conj
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 beats	compound:prt
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 grains	det
11	grains	grain	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 beats	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 blows	cc
13	blows	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cuts	conj
14	away	away	ADV	_	13 blows	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 straw	det
16	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 blows	obj
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 once	case
18	once	once	ADV	_	8 beats	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 doing	punct
20	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 cuts	parataxis
21	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 doing	obj
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 took	nsubj
23	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	24 took	advmod
24	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 work	acl:relcl
25	dozens	dozen	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 took	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 people	case
27	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 dozens	nmod
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 sickles	case
29	sickles	sickle	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 people	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cuts	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cut	present	a combine harvester	the wheat		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wheat=Product
2	beat out	present	a combine harvester not said here	the grains		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location grain=Theme
3	blow away	present	a combine harvester not said here	the straw	away property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent straw=Patient
4	do	gerund		work		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
5	take	past	work	dozens of people with sickles	once property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dozen=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:7.

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): R3-conj-first ×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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