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title: On mountains in Yunnan people carved rice terraces like giant steps,… — China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus, tea and r… · tree and pragmatics
description: On mountains in Yunnan people carved rice terraces like giant steps, and in Zhejiang farmers keep fish among the rice. Who acts: people, Zhejiang farmers. 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 de
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# China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus, tea and rice paddies, sentence 7

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On mountains in Yunnan people carved rice terraces like giant steps, and in Zhejiang farmers keep fish among the rice.

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**Who acts:** people, Zhejiang farmers · **What happens:** carve, keep · **To what, where:** rice terraces, mountains, fish, rice

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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 (people, Zhejiang farmers), 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:7
# text = On mountains in Yunnan people carved rice terraces like giant steps, and in Zhejiang farmers keep fish among the rice.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Yunnan	Yunnan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	carved	carve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	terraces	terrace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	Zhejiang	Zhejiang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	farmers	farmer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:obl
17	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	among	among	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **carve** | past | people | rice terraces |  | mountains in Yunnan |  | like giant steps | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent terrace=Theme on mountain=Destination |
| 2 | **keep** | present | Zhejiang farmers | fish |  | the rice |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fish=Theme among rice=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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**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:7`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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.

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

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