China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus, tea and rice paddies, sentence 15

Ginkgo seeds have a fleshy coat that smells like sick or rancid butter because of an acid in it; only female trees make seeds, so many cities plant only male trees, and the inside nut is cooked and eaten in China in small amounts.

Who acts: Ginkgo seeds, fleshy coat, female trees, many cities · What happens: have, smell, make, plant, cook, eat · To what, where: fleshy coat, seeds, male trees, inside nut

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 (Ginkgo seeds, fleshy coat, female trees, many cities), 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	Ginkgo	ginkgo	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seeds	compound
2	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 coat	det
5	fleshy	fleshy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 coat	amod
6	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 smells	nsubj
8	smells	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 coat	acl:relcl
9	like	like	ADP	_	13 butter	case
10	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 butter	amod
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 rancid	cc
12	rancid	rancid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sick	conj
13	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 smells	obl
14	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	17 acid	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	14 because	fixed
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 acid	det
17	acid	acid	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 smells	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 acid	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 make	punct
21	only	only	ADV	_	23 trees	advmod
22	female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 trees	amod
23	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 make	nsubj
24	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 have	parataxis
25	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 make	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 plant	punct
27	so	so	ADV	_	30 plant	advmod
28	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 cities	amod
29	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 plant	nsubj
30	plant	plant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 make	conj
31	only	only	ADV	_	33 trees	advmod
32	male	male	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 trees	amod
33	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 plant	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 cooked	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 cooked	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 nut	det
37	inside	inside	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 nut	amod
38	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 cooked	nsubj:pass
39	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 cooked	aux:pass
40	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 plant	conj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 eaten	cc
42	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 cooked	conj
43	in	in	ADP	_	44 China	case
44	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 cooked	obl
45	in	in	ADP	_	47 amounts	case
46	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 amounts	amod
47	amounts	amount	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 cooked	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	Ginkgo seeds	a fleshy coat		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Patient
2	smell	present	a fleshy coat		like sick butter; because a acid in seed	vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	make	present	female trees	seeds		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset seed=Product
4	plant	present	many cities	male trees		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient
5	cook	present · passive		the inside nut	in small amounts; in China	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient in china=Instrument
6	eat	participle				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:15.

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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