Rice, maize and potatoes: the plants that feed the world, sentence 2

Flooded paddy fields, built as steps on hills, drown many weeds that cannot cope.

Who acts: many weeds · What happens: flood, build, drown, not cope · To what, where: Flooded paddy fields, many weeds

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 (many weeds), 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	Flooded	flood	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 fields	amod
2	paddy	paddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fields	compound
3	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 built	nsubj:pass
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 built	punct
5	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	as	as	ADP	_	7 steps	case
7	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 built	obl
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 hills	case
9	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 steps	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 drown	punct
11	drown	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 built	conj
12	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 weeds	amod
13	weeds	weed	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 drown	obj
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 cope	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 cope	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 cope	advmod
17	cope	cope	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 weeds	acl:relcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 drown	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	flood	participle				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	build	participle · passive		Flooded paddy fields	as steps on hills	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
3	drown	infinitive		many weeds		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weed=Patient
4	not cope	can	many weeds			vn cope-83-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:2.

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, R6-punct-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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