China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus, tea and rice paddies, sentence 21

In Zhejiang farmers have kept fish in their rice fields for over 1,200 years; the fish eat insects and weeds and their droppings feed the rice, and it is protected as a world farming heritage.

Who acts: Zhejiang farmers, fish, droppings · What happens: keep, eat, feed, protect · To what, where: fish, rice fields, insects, rice

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 (Zhejiang farmers, fish, droppings), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 farmers	case
2	Zhejiang	Zhejiang	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 farmers	compound
3	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 kept	nsubj
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 kept	aux
5	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 kept	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 fields	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 fields	nmod:poss
9	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fields	compound
10	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 kept	obl
11	for	for	ADP	_	14 years	case
12	over	over	ADV	_	13 1,200	advmod
13	1,200	1200	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 years	nummod
14	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 kept	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 eat	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 fish	det
17	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 eat	nsubj
18	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 kept	parataxis
19	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 eat	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 weeds	cc
21	weeds	weed	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 insects	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 feed	cc
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 droppings	nmod:poss
24	droppings	dropping	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 feed	nsubj
25	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 eat	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 rice	det
27	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 feed	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 protected	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 protected	cc
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 protected	nsubj:pass
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 protected	aux:pass
32	protected	protect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 eat	conj
33	as	as	ADP	_	37 heritage	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 heritage	det
35	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 farming	compound
36	farming	farming	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 heritage	compound
37	heritage	heritage	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 protected	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 kept	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present · perfect	Zhejiang farmers	fish	farmers's rice fields	year		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fish=Theme in field=Location
2	eat	present	the fish	insects and weeds				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Patient
3	feed	present	weeds's droppings	the rice				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent rice=Theme
4	protect	present · passive		rice			as a farming heritage	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary

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:21.

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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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