--- title: Rice is a grass that can stand with its feet in water, because air t… — Rice, maize and potatoes: the plants that feed t… · tree and pragmatics description: Rice is a grass that can stand with its feet in water, because air travels down spongy tubes inside its stems to the roots. Who acts: Rice, grass, air. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rice, grass, air), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:345-rice-maize-and-potatoes-the-plants-that-feed-the-world.lesson:1 # text = Rice is a grass that can stand with its feet in water, because air travels down spongy tubes inside its stems to the roots. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 345-rice-maize-and-potatoes-the-plants-that-feed-the-world.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change 1 Rice Rice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 6 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl:relcl _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 14 because because SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 travels travel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 17 down down ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 18 spongy spongy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 tubes tube NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 20 inside inside ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 stems stem NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Rice | a grass | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **stand** | can | a grass | | | | | with grass's feet in water | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **travel** | present | air | spongy tubes | | air's stems to the roots | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tube=Trajectory | | 4 | **stem** | | air | | | | | to the roots | nom stem «communication transitive»: poss=agent to=obl | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:345-rice-maize-and-potatoes-the-plants-that-feed-the-world.lesson:1`. **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): no change. **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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