Food and farming around the world, sentence 3

Rice loves hot, wet river plains with flooded fields; wheat likes cooler, drier lands; and where land is too dry or too cold to farm, people herd animals instead.

Who acts: Rice, wheat, land, people · What happens: love, flood, like, be, farm, herd · To what, where: hot wet river plains, cooler drier lands, animals

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 (Rice, wheat, land, people), 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	Rice	Rice	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 loves	nsubj
2	loves	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 plains	amod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 hot	punct
5	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 plains	amod
6	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 plains	compound
7	plains	plain	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 loves	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 fields	case
9	flooded	flood	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 fields	amod
10	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 plains	nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 cooler	punct
12	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 likes	nsubj
13	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 loves	parataxis
14	cooler	cool	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 lands	amod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lands	punct
16	drier	dry	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 lands	amod
17	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 likes	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 dry	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 herd	cc
20	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 dry	advmod
21	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 dry	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 dry	cop
23	too	too	ADV	_	24 dry	advmod
24	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 herd	advcl
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 cold	cc
26	too	too	ADV	_	27 cold	advmod
27	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 dry	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 farm	mark
29	farm	farm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 cold	advcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 herd	punct
31	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 herd	nsubj
32	herd	herd	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 loves	conj
33	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 herd	obj
34	instead	instead	ADV	_	32 herd	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 loves	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	love	present	Rice	hot wet river plains	with flooded fields	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer plain=Stimulus
2	flood	participle				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	like	present	wheat	cooler drier lands		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot land=Theme
4	is	present	land		dry property	tree rules
5	be		land not said here			tree rules
6	farm	to-infinitive	land not said here			vn rear-26.2.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	herd	present	people	animals	instead property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent animal=Patient

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:3.

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): R7-rel-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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