--- title: Bamboo is a giant grass; some kinds grow close to a metre in a day,… — China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus, tea and r… · tree and pragmatics description: Bamboo is a giant grass; some kinds grow close to a metre in a day, and a shoot comes out as thick as it will ever be and just stretches. Who acts: Bamboo, kinds, shoot. A sentence of the lesson «China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus, tea and rice paddies» of the biology course of Mova's primary sch --- [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/8/) [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/) / 8 # China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus, tea and rice paddies, sentence 8 Bamboo is a giant grass; some kinds grow close to a metre in a day, and a shoot comes out as thick as it will ever be and just stretches. **Who acts:** Bamboo, kinds, shoot · **What happens:** be, grow, come out, stretch · **To what, where:** giant grass 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, kinds, shoot), 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:8 # text = Bamboo is a giant grass; some kinds grow close to a metre in a day, and a shoot comes out as thick as it will ever be and just stretches. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Bamboo bamboo NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 ; ; PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 8 det _ _ 8 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 10 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 metre metre NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 shoot shoot NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 22 out out ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 as as ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 24 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:obl 25 as as SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 27 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 29 advmod _ _ 29 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 advcl _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 just just ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 stretches stretch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Bamboo | a giant grass | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **grow** | present | some kinds | | | | day | close *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **come out** | present | a shoot | | | | | | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **be** | future | shoot | | | | ever | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **stretch** | present | a shoot *not said here* | | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:8`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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