China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus, tea and rice paddies, sentence 17

A lotus seed about 1,300 years old from a dry lake bed in China was grown into a plant, thanks to its hard waterproof seed coat, and lotus flowers can warm themselves to about 30 to 35 degrees to attract insects.

Who acts: lotus flowers · What happens: grow, warm, attract · To what, where: lotus seed, dry lake bed, bumps, insects

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 (lotus flowers), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 seed	det
2	lotus	lotus	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seed	compound
3	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 grown	nsubj:pass
4	about	about	ADV	_	5 1,300	advmod
5	1,300	1,300	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 old	obl:unmarked
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 seed	amod
8	from	from	ADP	_	12 bed	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bed	det
10	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bed	amod
11	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bed	compound
12	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 grown	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 China	case
14	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 bed	nmod
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 grown	aux:pass
16	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 plant	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 plant	det
19	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 grown	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 thanks	punct
21	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 grown	obl
22	to	to	ADP	_	27 coat	case
23	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 coat	nmod:poss
24	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 coat	amod
25	waterproof	waterproof	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 coat	amod
26	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 coat	compound
27	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 thanks	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 warm	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 warm	cc
30	lotus	lotus	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 flowers	compound
31	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 warm	nsubj
32	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 warm	aux
33	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 grown	conj
34	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 warm	obj
35	to	to	ADP	_	40 degrees	case
36	about	about	ADV	_	37 30	advmod
37	30	30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	40 degrees	nummod
38	to	to	ADP	_	39 35	case
39	35	35	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	37 30	nmod
40	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 warm	obl
41	to	to	PART	_	42 attract	mark
42	attract	attract	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 warm	advcl
43	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 attract	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 grown	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	past · passive		a lotus seed	a dry lake bed in China	into a plant; thanks to seed's hard waterproof seed coat obl	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: subject=Product from bed=Material
2	warm	can	lotus flowers	bumps = bump		to 30 degrees	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient
3	attract	to-infinitive	lotus flowers not said here	insects			vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=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:17.

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. 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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