Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our food, sentence 20

In the 1930s the ploughed prairies of America dried out and the soil blew away in huge dust storms called the Dust Bowl; many families lost their farms, and farmers learned to plant trees and keep soil covered.

Who acts: ploughed prairies, soil, many families, farmers · What happens: plough, dry out, blow away, call, lose, learn · To what, where: 1930s, huge dust storms, Dust Bowl, farms, trees, soil · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our food» 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 (ploughed prairies, soil, many families, farmers), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 1930s	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 1930s	det
3	1930s	1930	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 dried	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 prairies	det
5	ploughed	plough	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 prairies	amod
6	prairies	prairie	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 dried	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 America	case
8	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 prairies	nmod
9	dried	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 blew	conj
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 dried	compound:prt
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 blew	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 soil	det
13	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 blew	nsubj
14	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	away	away	ADV	_	14 blew	advmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 storms	case
17	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 storms	amod
18	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 storms	compound
19	storms	storm	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 blew	obl
20	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 storms	acl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Bowl	det
22	Dust	Dust	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Bowl	compound
23	Bowl	Bowl	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 called	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 lost	punct
25	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 families	amod
26	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 lost	nsubj
27	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 blew	conj
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 farms	nmod:poss
29	farms	farm	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 lost	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 learned	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 learned	cc
32	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 learned	nsubj
33	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 lost	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 plant	mark
35	plant	plant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 learned	xcomp
36	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 plant	obj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 keep	cc
38	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 plant	conj
39	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 keep	obj
40	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 keep	xcomp
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 dried	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	plough	participle						vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	dry out	past	the ploughed prairies of America			the 1930s		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	blow away	past	the soil			huge dust storms	away property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
4	call	participle		huge dust storms not said here	the Dust Bowl			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bowl=Recipient
5	lose	past	many families	prairies's farms				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farm=Eventuality
6	learn	past	farmers					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	plant	to-infinitive	farmers not said here	trees				vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient
8	keep	infinitive	farmers not said here	soil				tree rules
9	cover	participle	soil not said here					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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:291-bees-worms-and-soil-the-hidden-helpers-of-our-food.lesson:20.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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