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title: Ginkgos are tough against pollution, so many cities plant them on st… — China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus, tea and r… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ginkgos are tough against pollution, so many cities plant them on streets. Who acts: Ginkgos, many cities. 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 dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus, tea and rice paddies, sentence 14

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Ginkgos are tough against pollution, so many cities plant them on streets.

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**Who acts:** Ginkgos, many cities · **What happens:** be, plant · **To what, where:** trees, streets

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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 (Ginkgos, many cities), 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:14
# text = Ginkgos are tough against pollution, so many cities plant them on streets.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Ginkgos	Ginkgos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	tough	tough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	against	against	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	pollution	pollution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	plant	plant	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **is** | present | Ginkgos |  |  |  |  | against pollution; tough *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **plant** | present | many cities | trees *= tree* |  | streets |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme on street=Destination |

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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:14`.

**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): R7-rel-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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