--- title: Some bamboos flower only once in about 60 to 120 years, all plants o… — China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus, tea and r… · tree and pragmatics description: Some bamboos flower only once in about 60 to 120 years, all plants of one kind flowering at the same time and then dying; in the 1970s and 1980s mass flowering in China left giant pandas short of food. Who acts: bamboos, plants, mass flowering. 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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 (bamboos, plants, mass flowering), 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:10 # text = Some bamboos flower only once in about 60 to 120 years, all plants of one kind flowering at the same time and then dying; in the 1970s and 1980s mass flowering in China left giant pandas short of food. # 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): no change 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 bamboos bamboo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 flower flower VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 only only ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 3 advmod _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 7 about about ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 60 60 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 120 120 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nmod _ _ 11 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 13 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 14 det _ _ 14 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 flowering flower VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 19 at at ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 25 advmod _ _ 25 dying die VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 conj _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 1970s 1970s NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 36 obl _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 1980s 1980s NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 29 conj _ _ 32 mass mass NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 flowering flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 36 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 37 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 pandas panda NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 39 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 xcomp _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **flower** | present | some bamboos | | | | year | once *property* | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **flower** | gerund | all plants of one kind | | | | time | | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **die** | gerund | all plants of one kind *not said here* | | | | then | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **leave** | past | mass flowering in China | giant pandas | | the 1970s and 1980s | | short *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent panda=Theme in 1970s=Location | 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: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): no change. **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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