From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread, sentence 8
Windmills and watermills once ground grain between big stones; today most flour is made in huge roller mills.
Who acts: Windmills · What happens: grind, make · To what, where: grain, most flour, huge roller mills
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 (Windmills), 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 | Windmills | windmill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ground | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 watermills | cc |
| 3 | watermills | watermill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Windmills | conj |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | _ | 5 ground | advmod |
| 5 | ground | grind | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 made | parataxis |
| 6 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ground | obj |
| 7 | between | between | ADP | _ | 9 stones | case |
| 8 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stones | amod |
| 9 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ground | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 made | punct |
| 11 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 flour | amod |
| 13 | flour | flour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 made | aux:pass |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 mills | case |
| 17 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 mills | amod |
| 18 | roller | roller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 mills | compound |
| 19 | mills | mill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 made | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 made | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grind | past | Windmills and watermills | grain | between big stones; once property | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument grain=Patient | |||
| 2 | make | present · passive | most flour | huge roller mills | today | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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:8.
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): no change. 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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