The first farms and towns, sentence 5
When farms grew more food than the farmers needed, not everyone had to farm.
Who acts: farms, farmers, everyone · What happens: grow, need, have, farm · To what, where: more food
This is a sentence of the lesson «The first farms and towns» of the history 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 (farms, farmers, everyone), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 grew | mark |
| 2 | farms | farm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 had | advcl |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 food | amod |
| 5 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grew | obj |
| 6 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 9 needed | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 farmers | det |
| 8 | farmers | farmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 needed | nsubj |
| 9 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 food | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 everyone | advmod |
| 12 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 13 had | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 farm | mark |
| 15 | farm | farm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 had | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | farms | more food | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location food=Theme | ||||
| 2 | need | past | the farmers | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | have | past | everyone | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | farm | to-infinitive | everyone not said here | vn rear-26.2.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:history:002-the-first-farms-and-towns.lesson:5.
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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