Rice, maize and potatoes: the plants that feed the world, sentence 12

White rice is brown rice with the outer layers, called bran, polished off; it cooks faster and keeps longer, but the bran held vitamin B1.

Who acts: White rice, outer layers, grain, bran · What happens: be, call, polish off, cook, keep, hold · To what, where: brown rice, bran, vitamin · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (White rice, outer layers, grain, bran), 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	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 rice	amod
2	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rice	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 rice	cop
4	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rice	amod
5	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 layers	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 layers	det
8	outer	outer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 layers	amod
9	layers	layer	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rice	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 called	punct
11	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 layers	acl
12	bran	bran	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 called	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 polished	punct
14	polished	polish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 called	xcomp
15	off	off	ADP	_	14 polished	compound:prt
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 cooks	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 cooks	nsubj
18	cooks	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 rice	parataxis
19	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 cooks	advmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 keeps	cc
21	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 cooks	conj
22	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	21 keeps	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 bran	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 bran	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 bran	det
26	bran	bran	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rice	conj
27	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 bran	acl
28	vitamin	vitamin	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 held	obj
29	B1	B1	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 vitamin	appos
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 rice	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	White rice	brown rice but the bran	with the outer layers	tree rules
2	call	participle	the outer layers not said here	bran		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	polish off	participle	the outer layers not said here			vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
4	cook	present	grain			vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	keep	present	grain not said here		long property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	hold	participle	the bran not said here	vitamin		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vitamin=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:12.

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): 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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