--- title: A lotus seed about 1,300 years old from a dry lake bed in China was… — China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus, tea and r… · tree and pragmatics description: A lotus seed about 1,300 years old from a dry lake bed in China was grown into a plant, thanks to its hard waterproof seed coat, and lotus flowers can warm themselves to about 30 to 35 degrees to attract insects. Who acts: lotus flowers. 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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 flowers), 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:17 # text = A lotus seed about 1,300 years old from a dry lake bed in China was grown into a plant, thanks to its hard waterproof seed coat, and lotus flowers can warm themselves to about 30 to 35 degrees to attract insects. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 lotus lotus NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 seed seed NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 about about ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 1,300 1,300 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl:unmarked _ _ 7 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 lake lake NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 17 into into ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 thanks thanks NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:conj 22 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 23 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 24 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 25 waterproof waterproof ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 26 seed seed NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 coat coat NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 30 lotus lotus NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 32 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 warm warm VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 34 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 33 obj _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 36 about about ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 40 nummod _ _ 38 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 35 35 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 37 nmod _ _ 40 degrees degree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ _ 42 attract attract VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 advcl _ _ 43 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 obj _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | past · passive | | a lotus seed | | a dry lake bed in China | | into a plant; thanks to seed's hard waterproof seed coat *obl* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: subject=Product from bed=Material | | 2 | **warm** | can | lotus flowers | bumps *= bump* | | | | to 30 degrees | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient | | 3 | **attract** | to-infinitive | lotus flowers *not said here* | insects | | | | | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=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:17`. **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): R5-strong ×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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