Forests: woodland through the year and the great northern forest, sentence 9

The taiga, or boreal forest, is mostly spruce, pine, fir and larch, and it is the biggest land habitat on Earth, nearly a third of all the world's forest.

Who acts: taiga · What happens: be · To what, where: spruce, biggest land habitat, Earth

This is a sentence of the lesson «Forests: woodland through the year and the great northern forest» 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 (taiga), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 taiga	det
2	taiga	taiga	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spruce	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 forest	punct
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 forest	cc
5	boreal	boreal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 forest	compound
6	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 taiga	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 taiga	punct
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 spruce	cop
9	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	10 spruce	advmod
10	spruce	spruce	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pine	punct
12	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spruce	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fir	punct
14	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spruce	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 larch	cc
16	larch	larch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spruce	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 habitat	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 habitat	cc
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 habitat	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 habitat	cop
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 habitat	det
22	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 habitat	amod
23	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 habitat	compound
24	habitat	habitat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spruce	conj
25	on	on	ADP	_	26 Earth	case
26	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 habitat	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 third	punct
28	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	30 third	advmod
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 third	det
30	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spruce	conj
31	of	of	ADP	_	36 forest	case
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	36 forest	det:predet
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 world	det
34	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 forest	nmod:poss
35	's	's	PART	_	34 world	case
36	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 third	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 spruce	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the taiga or boreal forest	spruce and pine and fir and larch and the biggest land habitat and a third of the world's forest				mostly property	tree rules
2	is a	present	taiga	the biggest land habitat		Earth			tree rules

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, 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:012-forests-woodland-through-the-year.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): R3-conj-first ×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.

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