China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus, tea and rice paddies, sentence 0

Bamboo is a giant grass, and some kinds grow close to a metre in a single day: if you sat beside a shoot with a ruler, you could almost watch it stretch.

Who acts: Bamboo, kinds, you · What happens: be, grow, sit, watch, stretch · To what, where: giant grass, shoot, Bamboo

This is a sentence of the lesson «China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus, tea and rice paddies» 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 (Bamboo, kinds, you), 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	Bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grass	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 grass	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 grass	det
4	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 grass	amod
5	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 grow	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 grow	cc
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 kinds	det
9	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 grow	nsubj
10	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 grass	conj
11	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 grow	xcomp
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 metre	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 metre	det
14	metre	metre	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 close	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 day	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 day	det
17	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 day	amod
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grow	obl
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	33 watch	punct
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 sat	mark
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 sat	nsubj
22	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 watch	advcl
23	beside	beside	ADP	_	25 shoot	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 shoot	det
25	shoot	shoot	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sat	obl
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 ruler	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 ruler	det
28	ruler	ruler	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 shoot	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sat	punct
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 watch	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 watch	aux
32	almost	almost	ADV	_	33 watch	advmod
33	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 grass	parataxis
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 watch	obj
35	stretch	stretch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 watch	xcomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 grass	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Bamboo	a giant grass				tree rules
2	grow	present	some kinds			day	close property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sit a condition, not said to happen	past	you		a shoot with a ruler			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside shoot=Location
4	watch	could	you	Bamboo			almost property	tree rules
5	stretch	infinitive	Bamboo not said here					vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:380-china-s-plants-bamboo-ginkgo-lotus-tea-and-rice-paddies.lesson:0.

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): R8-pos-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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