--- title: Pour water on a lotus leaf and it rolls off in silver balls, carryin… — China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus, tea and r… · tree and pragmatics description: Pour water on a lotus leaf and it rolls off in silver balls, carrying the dirt with it, because the leaf is covered in tiny waxy bumps. Who acts: you, water. 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/380-china-s-plants-bamboo-ginkgo-lotus-tea-and-rice-paddies/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/380-china-s-plants-bamboo-ginkgo-lotus-tea-and-rice-paddies/) / 4 # China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus, tea and rice paddies, sentence 4 Pour water on a lotus leaf and it rolls off in silver balls, carrying the dirt with it, because the leaf is covered in tiny waxy bumps. **Who acts:** you, water · **What happens:** pour, roll off, carry, cover · **To what, where:** water, lotus leaf, silver balls, dirt, leaf 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 (you, water), 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:4 # text = Pour water on a lotus leaf and it rolls off in silver balls, carrying the dirt with it, because the leaf is covered in tiny waxy bumps. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Pour pour VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 lotus lotus NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 leaf leaf NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 rolls roll VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 10 off off ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 silver silver ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:amod 13 balls ball NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 carrying carry VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:advcl 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 dirt dirt NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 because because SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 leaf leaf NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:advcl 26 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 28 waxy waxy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 bumps bump NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pour** | imperative | you *not said here* | water | | a lotus leaf | | | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | | 2 | **roll off** | present | water | | | silver balls | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ball=Trajectory | | 3 | **carry** | gerund | water *not said here* | the dirt | | | | with water | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dirt=Theme | | 4 | **cover** | present · passive | | the leaf | | | | in tiny waxy bumps | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in bump=Theme | 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:4`. **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 ×2, 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. 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