Rice, maize and potatoes: the plants that feed the world, sentence 13

Japanese navy sailors who ate mostly white rice once fell ill with beriberi, an illness that makes the legs weak and numb, until doctors added other foods.

Who acts: Japanese navy sailors, illness, doctors · What happens: eat, fall, make, add · To what, where: white rice, legs, other foods

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 (Japanese navy sailors, illness, doctors), 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	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sailors	amod
2	navy	navy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sailors	compound
3	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 fell	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 ate	nsubj
5	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sailors	acl:relcl
6	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	7 white	advmod
7	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 rice	amod
8	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ate	obj
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 fell	advmod
10	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fell	xcomp
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 beriberi	case
13	beriberi	beriberi	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fell	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 illness	punct
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 illness	det
16	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 beriberi	appos
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 makes	nsubj
18	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 illness	acl:relcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 legs	det
20	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 makes	obj
21	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 makes	xcomp
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 numb	cc
23	numb	numb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 weak	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 added	punct
25	until	until	SCONJ	_	27 added	mark
26	doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 added	nsubj
27	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 makes	conj
28	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 foods	amod
29	foods	food	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 added	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 fell	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat	past	Japanese navy sailors	white rice		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rice=Patient
2	fall	past	Japanese navy sailors		with beriberi; ill, once property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	make	present	a illness	the legs	weak property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset leg=Product
4	add speech: assert	past	doctors	other foods		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=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:345-rice-maize-and-potatoes-the-plants-that-feed-the-world.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): R5-strong ×2, 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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