Mountains: life as you climb higher, sentence 2

Up there the summer is short, the wind is fierce and the sunshine is strong, so trees give up at the treeline and only tough, low, hairy or cushion-shaped plants carry on.

Who acts: summer, wind, sunshine, trees, tough low plants · What happens: be, give up, carry on · To what, where: treeline

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 (summer, wind, sunshine, trees), 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	Up	up	ADV	_	6 short	advmod
2	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Up	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 summer	det
4	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 short	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 short	cop
6	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fierce	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wind	det
9	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fierce	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 fierce	cop
11	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 short	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 strong	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sunshine	det
14	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 strong	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 strong	cop
16	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 short	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 give	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	20 give	advmod
19	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 give	nsubj
20	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 short	parataxis
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 give	compound:prt
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 treeline	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 treeline	det
24	treeline	treeline	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 give	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 carry	cc
26	only	only	ADV	_	27 tough	advmod
27	tough	tough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 plants	amod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 tough	punct
29	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 plants	amod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 hairy	punct
31	hairy	hairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 low	conj
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	35 shaped	cc
33	cushion	cushion	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 shaped	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 cushion	punct
35	shaped	shaped	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 low	conj
36	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 carry	nsubj
37	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 give	conj
38	on	on	ADV	_	37 carry	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 short	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the summer		short property	tree rules
2	is	present	the wind		fierce property	tree rules
3	is	present	the sunshine		strong property	tree rules
4	give up	present	trees	the treeline		vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	carry on	present	tough low plants			vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent

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:2.

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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