Plants we eat: roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds, sentence 13
Rice grows in flooded fields called paddies in warm countries, and more than half of all people eat rice every day.
Who acts: Rice, flooded fields, half · What happens: grow, flood, call, eat · To what, where: flooded fields, paddies, rice · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Plants we eat: roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds» 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 (Rice, flooded fields, half), 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 grows | nsubj |
| 2 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 fields | case |
| 4 | flooded | flood | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 fields | amod |
| 5 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 grows | obl |
| 6 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 fields | acl |
| 7 | paddies | paddy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 called | xcomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 countries | case |
| 9 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 countries | amod |
| 10 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 paddies | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 eat | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 eat | cc |
| 13 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 15 half | advmod |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 more | fixed |
| 15 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 19 eat | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 people | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 people | det |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 half | nmod |
| 19 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 grows | conj |
| 20 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 eat | obj |
| 21 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 day | det |
| 22 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 eat | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 grows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | Rice | flooded fields | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in field=Location | ||||
| 2 | flood | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | call | participle | flooded fields not said here | paddies in warm countries | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | eat | present | half of all people | rice | day | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rice=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:biology:288-plants-we-eat-roots-stems-leaves-flowers-fruits-and-seeds.lesson:13.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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