Food and farming around the world, sentence 10

Rice grows best in hot, wet places with flooded fields (the water also holds back weeds), especially in the river plains and deltas of China, India and South-East Asia.

Who acts: Rice, water · What happens: grow, flood, hold back · To what, where: hot wet places, weeds

This is a sentence of the lesson «Food and farming around the world» of the geography 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 (Rice, water), 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	Rice	Rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grows	nsubj
2	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	2 grows	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	8 places	case
5	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 places	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hot	punct
7	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 places	amod
8	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grows	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 fields	case
10	flooded	flood	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 fields	amod
11	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 places	nmod
12	(	(	PUNCT	_	16 holds	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 water	det
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 holds	nsubj
15	also	also	ADV	_	16 holds	advmod
16	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 grows	parataxis
17	back	back	ADV	_	18 weeds	advmod
18	weeds	weed	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 holds	obj
19	)	)	PUNCT	_	16 holds	punct
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 plains	punct
21	especially	especially	ADV	_	25 plains	advmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	25 plains	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 plains	det
24	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 plains	compound
25	plains	plain	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grows	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 deltas	cc
27	deltas	delta	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 plains	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 China	case
29	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 plains	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 India	punct
31	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 China	conj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 Asia	cc
33	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 Asia	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 Asia	punct
35	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 Asia	compound
36	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 China	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 grows	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Rice		hot wet places with flooded fields	in the river plains of China and India and South East Asia and deltas; well property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location
2	flood	participle					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	hold back	present	the water	weeds			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weed=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:geography:026-food-and-farming-around-the-world.lesson:10.

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 ×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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