China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus, tea and rice paddies, sentence 10

Some bamboos flower only once in about 60 to 120 years, all plants of one kind flowering at the same time and then dying; in the 1970s and 1980s mass flowering in China left giant pandas short of food.

Who acts: bamboos, plants, mass flowering · What happens: flower, die, leave · To what, where: giant pandas, 1970s

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 (bamboos, plants, mass flowering), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 bamboos	det
2	bamboos	bamboo	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 flower	nsubj
3	flower	flower	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 once	advmod
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 flower	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	11 years	case
7	about	about	ADV	_	8 60	advmod
8	60	60	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 years	nummod
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 120	case
10	120	120	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 60	nmod
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 flower	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 flowering	punct
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 plants	det
14	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 flowering	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 kind	case
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 kind	nummod
17	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 plants	nmod
18	flowering	flower	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 flower	advcl
19	at	at	ADP	_	22 time	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 time	det
21	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 time	amod
22	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 flowering	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 dying	cc
24	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 dying	advmod
25	dying	die	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 flowering	conj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 flowering	punct
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 1970s	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 1970s	det
29	1970s	1970s	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	36 left	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 1980s	cc
31	1980s	1980s	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	29 1970s	conj
32	mass	mass	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 flowering	compound
33	flowering	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 left	nsubj
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 China	case
35	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 flowering	nmod
36	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 flower	parataxis
37	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 pandas	amod
38	pandas	panda	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 left	obj
39	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 left	xcomp
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 food	case
41	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 short	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 flower	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flower	present	some bamboos			year	once property	vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	flower	gerund	all plants of one kind			time		vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	die	gerund	all plants of one kind not said here			then		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	leave	past	mass flowering in China	giant pandas	the 1970s and 1980s		short property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent panda=Theme in 1970s=Location

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:10.

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): no change. 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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