China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus, tea and rice paddies, sentence 11
Builders in Hong Kong still use bamboo scaffolding tied with plastic strips, though more and more metal scaffolding is used there too.
Who acts: Builders · What happens: use, tie · To what, where: bamboo scaffolding, more metal scaffolding
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 (Builders), 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 | Builders | builder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 use | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Hong | case |
| 3 | Hong | Hong | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Builders | nmod |
| 4 | Kong | Kong | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Hong | flat |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 use | advmod |
| 6 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | bamboo | bamboo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 scaffolding | compound |
| 8 | scaffolding | scaffolding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 use | obj |
| 9 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 scaffolding | acl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 strips | case |
| 11 | plastic | plastic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 strips | compound |
| 12 | strips | strip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 tied | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 used | punct |
| 14 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 21 used | mark |
| 15 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 scaffolding | amod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 more | cc |
| 17 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 more | conj |
| 18 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 scaffolding | compound |
| 19 | scaffolding | scaffolding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 used | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 used | aux:pass |
| 21 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 use | advcl |
| 22 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 used | advmod |
| 23 | too | too | ADV | _ | 21 used | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 use | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | Builders in Hong | bamboo scaffolding | still | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scaffolding=Patient | |||
| 2 | tie | participle | bamboo scaffolding not said here | with plastic strips | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient with strip=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | use | present · passive | more metal scaffolding | there | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:11.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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