--- title: Rice grows best in hot, wet places with flooded fields (the water al… — Food and farming around the world · tree and pragmatics description: Rice grows best in hot, wet places with flooded fields (the water also holds back weeds), especially in the river plains and deltas of China, India and South-East Asia. Who acts: Rice, water. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rice, water), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:026-food-and-farming-around-the-world.lesson:10 # text = Rice grows best in hot, wet places with flooded fields (the water also holds back weeds), especially in the river plains and deltas of China, India and South-East Asia. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 026-food-and-farming-around-the-world.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 Rice Rice NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 best well ADV RBS Degree=Sup 2 advmod _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 flooded flood VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 amod _ _ 11 fields field NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 12 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 15 also also ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 holds hold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj 17 back back ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 weeds weed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:obl 19 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 especially especially ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 plains plain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 deltas delta NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:nmod 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 India India PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 33 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ _ 35 East East PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 Asia Asia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | present | Rice | | | hot wet places with flooded fields | | in the river plains of China and India and South East Asia and deltas; well *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location | | 2 | **flood** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **hold back** | present | the water | weeds | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weed=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:geography:026-food-and-farming-around-the-world.lesson:10`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Food and farming around the world, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/26-food-and-farming-around-the-world/9/) - next →: [Food and farming around the world, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/26-food-and-farming-around-the-world/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/26-food-and-farming-around-the-world/)