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title: All real tea, green or black, comes from one plant, and rice grows i… — China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus, tea and r… · tree and pragmatics
description: All real tea, green or black, comes from one plant, and rice grows in flooded fields that drown weeds. Who acts: real tea, rice, flooded fields. 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 t
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# China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus, tea and rice paddies, sentence 6

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All real tea, green or black, comes from one plant, and rice grows in flooded fields that drown weeds.

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**Who acts:** real tea, rice, flooded fields · **What happens:** come, grow, flood, drown · **To what, where:** one plant, flooded fields, weeds

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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 (real tea, rice, flooded fields), 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:6
# text = All real tea, green or black, comes from one plant, and rice grows in flooded fields that drown weeds.
# 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	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
2	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	flooded	flood	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	drown	drown	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	weeds	weed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **come** | present | all real tea |  |  | one plant |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from plant=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **grow** | present | rice |  |  | flooded fields |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in field=Location |
| 3 | **flood** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **drown** | present | flooded fields | weeds |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weed=Patient |

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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:6`.

**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.

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