China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus, tea and rice paddies, sentence 1

Its hollow stems with solid joints are strong and light, so Hong Kong builders still tie bamboo poles into scaffolding round skyscrapers.

Who acts: hollow stems, Hong builders, Bamboo · What happens: be, tie, stem · To what, where: bamboo poles

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 (hollow stems, Hong builders, Bamboo), 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	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 stems	nmod:poss
2	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stems	amod
3	stems	stem	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 strong	nsubj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 joints	case
5	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 joints	amod
6	joints	joint	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stems	nmod
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 strong	cop
8	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 light	cc
10	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 strong	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 tie	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	17 tie	advmod
13	Hong	Hong	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 builders	compound
14	Kong	Kong	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Hong	flat
15	builders	builder	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 tie	nsubj
16	still	still	ADV	_	17 tie	advmod
17	tie	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 strong	parataxis
18	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 poles	compound
19	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 tie	obj
20	into	into	ADP	_	21 scaffolding	case
21	scaffolding	scaffolding	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tie	obl
22	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 skyscrapers	amod
23	skyscrapers	skyscraper	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 tie	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 strong	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Bamboo's hollow stems with solid joints			strong property	tree rules
2	be		Bamboo's hollow stems with solid joints not said here				tree rules
3	tie	present	Hong builders	bamboo poles	still	into scaffolding; round skyscrapers obl	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent pole=Patient into scaffolding=Co-Patient
4	stem		Bamboo			with solid joints	nom stem «communication transitive»: poss=agent with=obl

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:1.

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, 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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