--- title: A lotus leaf has tiny bumps covered in wax, so water rolls off takin… — China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus, tea and r… · tree and pragmatics description: A lotus leaf has tiny bumps covered in wax, so water rolls off taking dirt with it; this lotus effect was copied for self-cleaning paint and glass, and in Buddhism the lotus stands for something pure rising from mud. Who acts: lotus leaf, water, lotus. 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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 (lotus leaf, water, lotus), 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:16 # text = A lotus leaf has tiny bumps covered in wax, so water rolls off taking dirt with it; this lotus effect was copied for self-cleaning paint and glass, and in Buddhism the lotus stands for something pure rising from mud. # 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 ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 lotus lotus NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 leaf leaf NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 bumps bump NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 wax wax NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 so so ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 12 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 rolls roll VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 14 off off ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 taking take VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:acl 16 dirt dirt NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obl _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 22 det _ _ 21 lotus lotus NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 effect effect NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 copied copy VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 26 self self NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ _ 28 cleaning cleaning NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 paint paint NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 Buddhism Buddhism PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 lotus lotus NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 stands stand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 39 for for ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 38 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=38:obj 41 pure pure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 42 rising rise VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 40 acl _ _ 43 from from ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 mud mud NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | a lotus leaf | tiny bumps | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bump=Patient | | 2 | **cover** | participle | | tiny bumps *not said here* | | | | in wax | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in wax=Theme | | 3 | **roll off** | present | water | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **take** | gerund | water *not said here* | dirt | | | | with water | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dirt=Theme | | 5 | **copy** | past · passive | | this lotus effect | | | | for cleaning paint and glass | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 6 | **stand** | present | the lotus | | | Buddhism | | for something | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in buddhism=Location | | 7 | **rise** | gerund | | | | mud | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from mud=Initial\_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:16`. **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 ×2. **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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