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description: One rice plant makes several stems, each ending in a head of about a hundred grains or more, so one grain planted can give back hundreds or thousands. Who acts: One rice plant, each. A sentence of the lesson «Rice, maize and potatoes: the plants that feed the world» of the biology course of Mova's p
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# Rice, maize and potatoes: the plants that feed the world, sentence 11

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One rice plant makes several stems, each ending in a head of about a hundred grains or more, so one grain planted can give back hundreds or thousands.

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**Who acts:** One rice plant, each · **What happens:** make, end, plant, give back · **To what, where:** several stems, head, one grain, hundreds

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Rice, maize and potatoes: the plants that feed the world» 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 (One rice plant, each), 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:11
# text = One rice plant makes several stems, each ending in a head of about a hundred grains or more, so one grain planted can give back hundreds or thousands.
# 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	stems	stem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:det
9	ending	end	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	acl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obl
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	about	about	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:det
16	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	grains	grain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	planted	plant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	advcl	_	_
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
27	back	back	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | One rice plant | several stems |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset stem=Product |
| 2 | **end** | gerund | each | several stems *not said here* |  | a head of hundred grains |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality stem=Eventuality |
| 3 | **plant** | participle · passive |  | one grain |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **give back** | can | One rice plant *not said here* | hundreds or thousands |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=Theme |

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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.

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**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:11`.

**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 ×3, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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