Rice, maize and potatoes: the plants that feed the world, sentence 10

Rice is the main food for billions of people, especially in Asia; China and India grow the most, and a field can give two or three crops a year in warm, wet places.

Who acts: Rice, China, field · What happens: be, grow, give · To what, where: main food, Asia, two crops, warm wet places

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, China, field), 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	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 food	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 food	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 food	det
4	main	main	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 food	amod
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 billions	case
7	billions	billion	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 food	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 people	case
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 billions	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Asia	punct
11	especially	especially	ADV	_	13 Asia	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 Asia	case
13	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 food	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 grow	punct
15	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 grow	nsubj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 India	cc
17	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 China	conj
18	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 food	parataxis
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 most	det
20	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	18 grow	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 give	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 give	cc
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 field	det
24	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 give	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 give	aux
26	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 grow	conj
27	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 crops	nummod
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 three	cc
29	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 two	conj
30	crops	crop	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 give	obj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 year	det
32	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 give	obl:unmarked
33	in	in	ADP	_	37 places	case
34	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 places	amod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 warm	punct
36	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 places	amod
37	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 give	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 food	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Rice	the main food	Asia		for billions of people	tree rules
2	grow	present	China and India					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	give	can	a field	two crops	warm wet places	year		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crop=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:biology:345-rice-maize-and-potatoes-the-plants-that-feed-the-world.lesson:10.

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 ×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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