--- title: Bamboo is a giant grass, and some kinds grow close to a metre in a s… — China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus, tea and r… · tree and pragmatics description: Bamboo is a giant grass, and some kinds grow close to a metre in a single day: if you sat beside a shoot with a ruler, you could almost watch it stretch. Who acts: Bamboo, kinds, you. A sentence of the lesson «China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus, tea and rice paddies» of the biology course of Mova --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/380-china-s-plants-bamboo-ginkgo-lotus-tea-and-rice-paddies/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/380-china-s-plants-bamboo-ginkgo-lotus-tea-and-rice-paddies/) / 0 # China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus, tea and rice paddies, sentence 0 Bamboo is a giant grass, and some kinds grow close to a metre in a single day: if you sat beside a shoot with a ruler, you could almost watch it stretch. **Who acts:** Bamboo, kinds, you · **What happens:** be, grow, sit, watch, stretch · **To what, where:** giant grass, shoot, Bamboo This is a sentence of the lesson «China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus, tea and rice paddies» 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 (Bamboo, kinds, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:380-china-s-plants-bamboo-ginkgo-lotus-tea-and-rice-paddies.lesson:0 # text = Bamboo is a giant grass, and some kinds grow close to a metre in a single day: if you sat beside a shoot with a ruler, you could almost watch it stretch. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 380-china-s-plants-bamboo-ginkgo-lotus-tea-and-rice-paddies.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Bamboo bamboo NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 9 det _ _ 9 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 11 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 metre metre NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 19 : : PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 20 if if SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=33:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 beside beside ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 shoot shoot NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 ruler ruler NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 30 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 31 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 almost almost ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 watch watch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 stretch stretch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 36 . . 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 | Bamboo | a giant grass | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **grow** | present | some kinds | | | | day | close *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **sit** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you | | | a shoot with a ruler | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside shoot=Location | | 4 | **watch** | could | you | Bamboo | | | | almost *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **stretch** | infinitive | Bamboo *not said here* | | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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:380-china-s-plants-bamboo-ginkgo-lotus-tea-and-rice-paddies.lesson:0`. **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): R8-pos-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. 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