--- title: Every grain of rice or kernel of maize is a seed with a tiny baby pl… — Rice, maize and potatoes: the plants that feed t… · tree and pragmatics description: Every grain of rice or kernel of maize is a seed with a tiny baby plant inside, which is why one grain planted can give back hundreds or even thousands. Who acts: grain, one grain. 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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 (grain, one grain), 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:8 # text = Every grain of rice or kernel of maize is a seed with a tiny baby plant inside, which is why one grain planted can give back hundreds or even 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 1 Every every DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 grain grain NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 rice rice NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 or or CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 kernel kernel NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 maize maize NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 seed seed NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 14 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 15 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 17 inside inside ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advmod 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 26 advmod _ _ 22 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 grain grain NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:nsubj 24 planted plant VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 acl:relcl _ _ 27 back back ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 28 hundreds hundred NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 29 or or CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 even even ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 conj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 11 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 | every grain of rice or kernel of maize | a seed | | | | with a tiny baby plant | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **plant** | participle | | one grain *not said here* | | | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **give back** | can | one grain | hundreds or thousands | | | | | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=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:8`. **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. **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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