Rice, maize and potatoes: the plants that feed the world, sentence 11

One rice plant makes several stems, each ending in a head of about a hundred grains or more, so one grain planted can give back hundreds or thousands.

Who acts: One rice plant, each · What happens: make, end, plant, give back · To what, where: several stems, head, one grain, hundreds

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 (One rice plant, each), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 plant	nummod
2	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 plant	compound
3	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 makes	nsubj
4	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stems	amod
6	stems	stem	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 makes	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ending	punct
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	9 ending	nsubj
9	ending	end	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 stems	acl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 head	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 head	det
12	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ending	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	17 grains	case
14	about	about	ADV	_	16 hundred	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 hundred	det
16	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 grains	nummod
17	grains	grain	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 head	nmod
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 more	cc
19	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 grains	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 planted	punct
21	so	so	SCONJ	_	24 planted	mark
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 grain	nummod
23	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 planted	nsubj:pass
24	planted	plant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 give	advcl
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 give	aux
26	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 makes	conj
27	back	back	ADP	_	26 give	compound:prt
28	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 give	obj
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 thousands	cc
30	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 hundreds	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 makes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	make	present	One rice plant	several stems		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset stem=Product
2	end	gerund	each	several stems not said here	a head of hundred grains	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality stem=Eventuality
3	plant	participle · passive		one grain		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	give back	can	One rice plant not said here	hundreds or thousands		vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=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:11.

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 ×3, 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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