China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus, tea and rice paddies, sentence 8

Bamboo is a giant grass; some kinds grow close to a metre in a day, and a shoot comes out as thick as it will ever be and just stretches.

Who acts: Bamboo, kinds, shoot · What happens: be, grow, come out, stretch · To what, where: giant grass

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 (Bamboo, kinds, shoot), 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	Bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grass	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 grass	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 grass	det
4	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 grass	amod
5	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 grow	punct
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 kinds	det
8	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 grow	nsubj
9	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 grass	parataxis
10	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 grow	xcomp
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 metre	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 metre	det
13	metre	metre	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 close	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 day	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 day	det
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grow	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 comes	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 comes	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 shoot	det
20	shoot	shoot	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 comes	nsubj
21	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 grow	conj
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 comes	compound:prt
23	as	as	ADV	_	24 thick	advmod
24	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 comes	advmod
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 be	mark
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 be	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 be	aux
28	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	29 be	advmod
29	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 thick	advcl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 stretches	cc
31	just	just	ADV	_	32 stretches	advmod
32	stretches	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 comes	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 grass	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Bamboo	a giant grass			tree rules
2	grow	present	some kinds		day	close property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come out	present	a shoot				vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
4	be	future	shoot		ever		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	stretch	present	a shoot not said here				vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:8.

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): R7-rel-agree ×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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