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title: Flooded paddy fields, built as steps on hills, drown many weeds that… — Rice, maize and potatoes: the plants that feed t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Flooded paddy fields, built as steps on hills, drown many weeds that cannot cope. Who acts: many weeds. A sentence of the lesson «Rice, maize and potatoes: the plants that feed the world» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Rice, maize and potatoes: the plants that feed the world, sentence 2

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Flooded paddy fields, built as steps on hills, drown many weeds that cannot cope.

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**Who acts:** many weeds · **What happens:** flood, build, drown, not cope · **To what, where:** Flooded paddy fields, many weeds

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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 (many weeds), 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:2
# text = Flooded paddy fields, built as steps on hills, drown many weeds that cannot cope.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Flooded	flood	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
2	paddy	paddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	drown	drown	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
12	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	weeds	weed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	cope	cope	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5: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 | **flood** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **build** | participle · passive |  | Flooded paddy fields |  |  |  | as steps on hills | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 3 | **drown** | infinitive |  | many weeds |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weed=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **cope** | can | many weeds |  |  |  |  |  | vn cope-83-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:2`.

**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, R6-punct-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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