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A sentence of the lesson «China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus, tea and rice paddies» of the biology course of Mova's --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus, tea and rice paddies, sentence 9 Bamboo stems are hollow with solid joints, which makes them strong and light, and bamboo bends without breaking and grows back quickly. **Who acts:** Bamboo stems, solid joints, bamboo · **What happens:** be, make, bend, break, grow back · **To what, where:** stems 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 stems, solid joints, bamboo), 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:9 # text = Bamboo stems are hollow with solid joints, which makes them strong and light, and bamboo bends without breaking and grows back quickly. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Bamboo bamboo NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 stems stem NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 hollow hollow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 solid solid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 joints joint NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 11 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 light light ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 bamboo bamboo NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 bends bend VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 19 without without SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 20 breaking break VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 23 back back ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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** | present | Bamboo stems | | | | | with solid joints; hollow *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | present | solid joints | stems *= stem* | | | | strong *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | | 3 | **bend** | present | bamboo | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **break** | gerund | bamboo *not said here* | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **grow back** | present | bamboo *not said here* | | | | | quickly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:9`. **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): R8-pos-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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