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title: Builders in Hong Kong still use bamboo scaffolding tied with plastic… — China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus, tea and r… · tree and pragmatics
description: Builders in Hong Kong still use bamboo scaffolding tied with plastic strips, though more and more metal scaffolding is used there too. Who acts: Builders. A sentence of the lesson «China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus, tea and rice paddies» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its de
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# China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus, tea and rice paddies, sentence 11

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Builders in Hong Kong still use bamboo scaffolding tied with plastic strips, though more and more metal scaffolding is used there too.

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**Who acts:** Builders · **What happens:** use, tie · **To what, where:** bamboo scaffolding, more metal scaffolding

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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 (Builders), 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:11
# text = Builders in Hong Kong still use bamboo scaffolding tied with plastic strips, though more and more metal scaffolding is used there too.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Builders	builder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Hong	Hong	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	Kong	Kong	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	still	still	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	scaffolding	scaffolding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	plastic	plastic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	strips	strip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
15	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	amod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=15:cc
17	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:conj|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp
18	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	scaffolding	scaffolding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj
22	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
23	too	too	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present | Builders in Hong | bamboo scaffolding |  |  | still |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scaffolding=Patient |
| 2 | **tie** | participle |  | bamboo scaffolding *not said here* |  |  |  | with plastic strips | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient with strip=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **use** | present · passive |  | more metal scaffolding |  | there |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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:380-china-s-plants-bamboo-ginkgo-lotus-tea-and-rice-paddies.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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.

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

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