Rice, maize and potatoes: the plants that feed the world, sentence 1

Rice is a grass that can stand with its feet in water, because air travels down spongy tubes inside its stems to the roots.

Who acts: Rice, grass, air · What happens: be, stand, travel, stem · To what, where: grass, spongy tubes, stems

This is a sentence of the lesson «Rice, maize and potatoes: the plants that feed the world» 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, grass, air), 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	4 grass	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 grass	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 grass	det
4	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 stand	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 stand	aux
7	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 grass	acl:relcl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 feet	case
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 feet	nmod:poss
10	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stand	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 water	case
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 feet	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 stems	punct
14	because	because	SCONJ	_	16 travels	mark
15	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 travels	nsubj
16	travels	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 stand	advcl
17	down	down	ADV	_	19 tubes	advmod
18	spongy	spongy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 tubes	amod
19	tubes	tube	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 travels	obj
20	inside	inside	ADP	_	22 stems	case
21	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 stems	nmod:poss
22	stems	stem	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 tubes	nmod
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 roots	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 roots	det
25	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 stems	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 grass	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Rice	a grass			tree rules
2	stand	can	a grass			with grass's feet in water	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	travel	present	air	spongy tubes	air's stems to the roots		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tube=Trajectory
4	stem		air			to the roots	nom stem «communication transitive»: poss=agent to=obl

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:345-rice-maize-and-potatoes-the-plants-that-feed-the-world.lesson:1.

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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