A year on a farm: lambing, haymaking, harvest and winter feeding, sentence 7

So nothing is wasted: summer grass becomes winter food, winter muck becomes spring fertiliser, and the next year starts again.

Who acts: summer grass, winter muck, next year · What happens: waste, become, start · To what, where: nothing, winter food, spring fertiliser

This is a sentence of the lesson «A year on a farm: lambing, haymaking, harvest and winter feeding» 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 (summer grass, winter muck, next year), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 wasted	advmod
2	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 wasted	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wasted	aux:pass
4	wasted	waste	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 becomes	punct
6	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grass	compound
7	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 becomes	nsubj
8	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wasted	conj
9	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 food	compound
10	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 becomes	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 becomes	punct
12	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 muck	compound
13	muck	muck	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 becomes	nsubj
14	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 becomes	conj
15	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fertiliser	compound
16	fertiliser	fertiliser	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 becomes	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 starts	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 starts	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 year	det
20	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 year	amod
21	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 starts	nsubj
22	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wasted	conj
23	again	again	ADV	_	22 starts	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wasted	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	waste	present · passive		nothing		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	become	present	summer grass	winter food		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	become	present	winter muck	spring fertiliser		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	start	present	the next year		again	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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:349-a-year-on-a-farm-lambing-haymaking-harvest-and-winter-feeding.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): R6-punct-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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