Food and farming around the world, sentence 19

Today machines, fertilisers and new seed varieties let far fewer farmers grow much more food than in the past, and only about 1 percent of Britons now work on the land.

Who acts: Today machines, fewer farmers, 1 percent · What happens: let, grow, work · To what, where: more food

This is a sentence of the lesson «Food and farming around the world» of the geography 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 (Today machines, fewer farmers, 1 percent), 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	Today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 machines	compound
2	machines	machine	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 let	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fertilisers	punct
4	fertilisers	fertiliser	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 machines	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 varieties	cc
6	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 varieties	amod
7	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 varieties	compound
8	varieties	variety	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 machines	conj
9	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 fewer	advmod
11	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 farmers	amod
12	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 grow	nsubj
13	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 let	xcomp
14	much	much	ADV	_	15 more	advmod
15	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 food	amod
16	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 grow	obj
17	than	than	ADP	_	20 past	case
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 past	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 past	det
20	past	past	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 grow	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 work	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 work	cc
23	only	only	ADV	_	26 percent	advmod
24	about	about	ADV	_	25 1	advmod
25	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	26 percent	nummod
26	percent	percent	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 work	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 Britons	case
28	Britons	briton	PROPN	Number=Plur	26 percent	nmod
29	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 work	advmod
30	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 let	conj
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 land	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 land	det
33	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 work	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 let	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	let	present	Today machines and fertilisers and new seed varieties				tree rules
2	grow	infinitive	fewer farmers	more food		than the past	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location food=Theme
3	work	present	1 percent of Britons		now	on the land	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on land=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:geography:026-food-and-farming-around-the-world.lesson:19.

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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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