--- title: Rice is the main food for billions of people, especially in Asia; Ch… — Rice, maize and potatoes: the plants that feed t… · tree and pragmatics description: Rice is the main food for billions of people, especially in Asia; China and India grow the most, and a field can give two or three crops a year in warm, wet places. Who acts: Rice, China, field. 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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, China, field), 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:10 # text = Rice is the main food for billions of people, especially in Asia; China and India grow the most, and a field can give two or three crops a year in warm, wet places. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 Rice rice NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 main main ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 billions billion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 especially especially ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Asia Asia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 15 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 India India PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 18 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 18 advmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 25 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 27 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 28 or or CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 conj _ _ 30 crops crop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl:unmarked _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 34 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 36 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:obl 38 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | the main food | | Asia | | for billions of people | tree rules | | 2 | **grow** | present | China and India | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **give** | can | a field | two crops | | warm wet places | year | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crop=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](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: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 ×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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