China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus, tea and rice paddies, sentence 9

Bamboo stems are hollow with solid joints, which makes them strong and light, and bamboo bends without breaking and grows back quickly.

Who acts: Bamboo stems, solid joints, bamboo · What happens: be, make, bend, break, grow back · To what, where: stems

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 stems, solid joints, bamboo), 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	2 stems	compound
2	stems	stem	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hollow	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hollow	cop
4	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 joints	case
6	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 joints	amod
7	joints	joint	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hollow	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 makes	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 makes	nsubj
10	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 joints	acl:relcl
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 makes	obj
12	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 makes	xcomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 light	cc
14	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 strong	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bends	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 bends	cc
17	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bends	nsubj
18	bends	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hollow	conj
19	without	without	SCONJ	_	20 breaking	mark
20	breaking	break	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 bends	advcl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 grows	cc
22	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 bends	conj
23	back	back	ADV	_	22 grows	advmod
24	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	22 grows	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hollow	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Bamboo stems		with solid joints; hollow property	tree rules
2	make	present	solid joints	stems = stem	strong property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product
3	bend	present	bamboo			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	break	gerund	bamboo not said here			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	grow back	present	bamboo not said here		quickly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:9.

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): R8-pos-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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