Mountains: life as you climb higher, sentence 14

Cushion plants grow in low tight domes that stay calmer and warmer inside, sometimes several degrees warmer than the air; some llareta cushions in the Andes may be over 1000 years old.

Who acts: Cushion plants, low tight domes, llareta cushions · What happens: grow, stay, be · To what, where: low tight domes

This is a sentence of the lesson «Mountains: life as you climb higher» 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 (Cushion plants, low tight domes, llareta cushions), 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	Cushion	cushion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 plants	compound
2	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	nsubj
3	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 domes	case
5	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 domes	amod
6	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 domes	amod
7	domes	dome	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	obl
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 stay	nsubj
9	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 domes	acl:relcl
10	calmer	calm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 stay	xcomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 warmer	cc
12	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 calmer	conj
13	inside	inside	ADV	_	9 stay	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 warmer	punct
15	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	18 warmer	advmod
16	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 degrees	amod
17	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 warmer	obl
18	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 stay	conj
19	than	than	ADP	_	21 air	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 air	det
21	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 warmer	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 old	punct
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 cushions	det
24	llareta	llareta	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 cushions	compound
25	cushions	cushion	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 old	nsubj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 Andes	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Andes	det
28	Andes	Andes	PROPN	Number=Plur	25 cushions	nmod
29	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 old	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 old	cop
31	over	over	ADV	_	32 1000	advmod
32	1000	1000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	33 years	nummod
33	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 old	obl:unmarked
34	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grow	parataxis
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grow	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Cushion plants	low tight domes			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dome=Location
2	stay	present	low tight domes			calm, inside property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	may	some llareta cushions in the Andes		year	old property	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:013-mountains-life-as-you-climb.lesson:14.

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 ×2. 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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