Rice, maize and potatoes: the plants that feed the world, sentence 8

Every grain of rice or kernel of maize is a seed with a tiny baby plant inside, which is why one grain planted can give back hundreds or even thousands.

Who acts: grain, one grain · What happens: be, plant, give back · To what, where: seed, 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 (grain, one grain), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 grain	det
2	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 seed	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 rice	case
4	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grain	nmod
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 kernel	cc
6	kernel	kernel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rice	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 maize	case
8	maize	maize	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kernel	nmod
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 seed	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 seed	det
11	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	with	with	ADP	_	16 plant	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 plant	det
14	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 plant	amod
15	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 plant	compound
16	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 seed	nmod
17	inside	inside	ADV	_	16 plant	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 why	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 why	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 why	cop
21	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	26 give	advmod
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 grain	nummod
23	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 give	nsubj
24	planted	plant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 grain	acl
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 give	aux
26	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 seed	acl:relcl
27	back	back	ADP	_	26 give	compound:prt
28	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 give	obj
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 thousands	cc
30	even	even	ADV	_	31 thousands	advmod
31	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 hundreds	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 seed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	every grain of rice or kernel of maize	a seed	with a tiny baby plant	tree rules
2	is	present			why property	tree rules
3	plant	participle		one grain not said here		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	give back	can	one grain	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:8.

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. 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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