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title: It is so tough that ginkgos near the Hiroshima bomb sprouted again f… — China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus, tea and r… · tree and pragmatics
description: It is so tough that ginkgos near the Hiroshima bomb sprouted again from their roots, kept safe under the soil. Who acts: Bamboo, ginkgos. 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
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# China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus, tea and rice paddies, sentence 3

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It is so tough that ginkgos near the Hiroshima bomb sprouted again from their roots, kept safe under the soil.

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**Who acts:** Bamboo, ginkgos · **What happens:** be, sprout, keep · **To what, where:** roots, soil

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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 (Bamboo, ginkgos), 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:3
# text = It is so tough that ginkgos near the Hiroshima bomb sprouted again from their roots, kept safe under the soil.
# 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	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	tough	tough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
6	ginkgos	ginkgo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
7	near	near	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Hiroshima	Hiroshima	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	bomb	bomb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	sprouted	sprout	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
12	again	again	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
18	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
19	under	under	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Bamboo |  |  |  |  | tough *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sprout** | participle | ginkgos near the Hiroshima bomb |  |  | ginkgos's roots | again |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from root=Source |
| 3 | **keep** | participle |  | ginkgos's roots *not said here* |  | the soil |  | safe *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent under soil=Location |

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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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**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.

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

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