China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus, tea and rice paddies, sentence 7
On mountains in Yunnan people carved rice terraces like giant steps, and in Zhejiang farmers keep fish among the rice.
Who acts: people, Zhejiang farmers · What happens: carve, keep · To what, where: rice terraces, mountains, fish, 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 (people, Zhejiang farmers), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 2 mountains | case |
| 2 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 carved | obl |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Yunnan | case |
| 4 | Yunnan | Yunnan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 mountains | nmod |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 carved | nsubj |
| 6 | carved | carve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 terraces | compound |
| 8 | terraces | terrace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 carved | obj |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 steps | case |
| 10 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 steps | amod |
| 11 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 terraces | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 keep | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 keep | cc |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 farmers | case |
| 15 | Zhejiang | Zhejiang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 farmers | compound |
| 16 | farmers | farmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 keep | nsubj |
| 17 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 carved | conj |
| 18 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 keep | obj |
| 19 | among | among | ADP | _ | 21 rice | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 rice | det |
| 21 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 keep | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 carved | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carve | past | people | rice terraces | mountains in Yunnan | like giant steps | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent terrace=Theme on mountain=Destination | ||
| 2 | keep | present | Zhejiang farmers | fish | the rice | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fish=Theme among rice=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:7.
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, R7-rel-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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